Upcoming Events

• May 4-5: Master Gardener Plant Sale at the UW Center for Urban Horticulture, 3501 NE 41st, Seattle. Click here for more info.

• May 6, 6-8pm: Lyon Creek High Flow Bypass Project Open House
  
  Please join the City, project engineers and environmental experts for the second open house discussing project schedule, design and construction elements, traffic and environmental impacts for the proposed bypass on Lyon Creek. Details available here.

• May 6-23: Weekday Volunteer Opportunities
  
  Have you been wanting to volunteer but don’t have your weekends free? If you have time during the week, we invite you to come and help out with our May weekday volunteer work parties! LFPSF and the Washington Conservation Corps will be doing blackberry and ivy removal in parks and open space within Lake Forest Park, Mondays-Thursdays, 8am-4pm for three weeks in May. Contact Mamie Bolender at 206-364-4410 or by email to sign up and to find out where the crew is working each day.

• May 13, 9am-4pm: Urban Forest Symposium, UW Center for Urban Horticulture. $75 per person. Speaker topics include: Trees, Views & Slope Stability. Details here.

• May 15, 6-8pm: New City Park Planning Open House, LFP City Hall, Council Chambers. Planning is underway for the property at 17038 44th Ave NE. The public is invited to review designs submitted by Edmond Community College Landscape Design students. For more info, email Aaron at the City at aaron@cityoflfp.com or call 368-5440.

• May 18, 9am-12pm: Work party at Grace Cole Nature Park. Contact Mamie at 364-4410. 

• June 15, 9am-4pm: Secret Gardens Tour and Garden Fair-Plant Sale
  
  The eleventh annual Secret Gardens of Lake Forest Park Garden Tour features five beautiful gardens in the city of Lake Forest Park. Artists and musicians will work and perform at each garden. Master Gardeners will be on hand to answer your gardening questions. Tickets: $12 advance purchase / $15 day of tour.
  
  The Free Garden Fair-Plant Sale is held on the lower level of the Lake Forest Park Town Center, featuring plants, yard art and gardening supplies. Details here.

LFPSF News

Apr. 20 2011:A new kiosk has been installed at the parking lot entrance to Grace Cole Nature Park.This kiosk was paid for by a generous donation from Sen. Darlene Fairley. See more photos here.

LFPSF Co-President Mamie Bolender with Jay Inslee at a work party at Grace Cole Nature Park

Unauthorized Clearing at Grace Cole Nature Park

It is currently a mystery as to who performed the illegal clearing at Cole Nature Park. See photos here.

RAIN GARDENS: Coming Soon to
Your Neighborhood

Do you know what happens to rain after it hits your roof?

Did you know that runoff is responsible for 75% of the pollution that enters our sensitive waterways – but there is something you can do about it?

People who attended our Annual Meeting on October 24th learned these things and more. Read more here.

Lyon Creek Bypass

The City has received funding and is currently designing a bypass pipe to reroute Lyon Creek during peak storm events. The Stewardship Foundation is actively involved with monitoring the design and has urged the City to do a full Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), to be sure that potential impacts to the natural functions of the stream are addressed. Read more here.

Preliminary planning is underway for a new park on City-purchased property along Lyon Creek at 17038 44th Ave NE.  Read more and be involved, here.

Aug. 20, 2011: Mayor Dave Hutchinson presided over an informal ceremony to mark the opening of two new trails in Grace Cole Nature Park. Read more here.

More LFPSF news is available here.

Our Watershed

Download a copy of the latest edition of our "Salmon's Guide to Lake Forest Park" map in PDF format.

Other formats available here.