Volunteer for Salmon!

Outdoor volunteer opportunities are waiting for you. Sign up now! Photo showing volunteers planting trees at Whitney Bridge Park on Middle Green.

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Seattle Parks Volunteer Projects
In addition to the volunteer projects below, the City of Seattle Parks Department offers many opportunities to steward urban forests across the city.

Other resources for new volunteer stewards (Adobe Acrobat 177 KB).

Sound Stewards training: Be part of a community of leaders who work to ensure the long-term success of urban nearshore restoration in the Duwamish Estuary! Next training: March 13, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. and March 16, 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m., Seattle.

Date and Time Name Location Information and sign up (sponsors vary)
Saturday,
May 4
10 a.m. -
2 p.m. 		Forest Restoration: Volunteer Work Party
Each work party begins with a short informal forest ecology workshop, and we spend the remainder of the time performing various restoration activities, including planting native trees and shrubs, removing invasive species, mulching previously-planted areas, and more. To connect art into this project we hire local musicians to perform in the woods during many work parties. Event will occur at 14th Ave. SW and SW Holly St.
*Volunteer work parties are also held year round on Tuesdays and Thursdays.		 West Seattle

Email or call 206-923-0853 at least 48 hours in advance - locations are subject to change
Saturday,
May 11
10 a.m. -
2 p.m. 		Forest Restoration: Volunteer Work Party
Each work party begins with a short informal forest ecology workshop, and we spend the remainder of the time performing various restoration activities, including planting native trees and shrubs, removing invasive species, mulching previously-planted areas, and more. To connect art into this project we hire local musicians to perform in the woods during many work parties. Event will occur at 14th Ave. SW and SW Holly St.
*Volunteer work parties are also held year round on Tuesdays and Thursdays.		 West Seattle

Email or call 206-923-0853 at least 48 hours in advance - locations are subject to change
Saturday,
May 18
10 a.m. -
1 p.m.

Restore the Duwamish Hill Preserve
Join volunteers to help restore this culturally significant park preserve. The Hill is culturally significant for its association with southern Puget Sound Salish oral tradition and history, as a key location in the stories collectively known as the "Epic of the Winds". Event activities include invasive weed removal and other restoration projects. Meet at the parking lot at the base of the preserve at 10:00 a.m. The address of the preserve and parking lot is 3800 S 115th St., Tukwila.

If you are under 18 and attending the event without a parent or guardian, please come to the event with the waiver below signed by a parent or guardian. Download the wavier here.

 Tukwila Register: Katie Cava
Saturday,
May 18
10 a.m. -
2 p.m. 		Forest Restoration: Volunteer Work Party
Each work party begins with a short informal forest ecology workshop, and we spend the remainder of the time performing various restoration activities, including planting native trees and shrubs, removing invasive species, mulching previously-planted areas, and more. To connect art into this project we hire local musicians to perform in the woods during many work parties. Event will occur at 1901 SW Genessee St.
*Volunteer work parties are also held year round on Tuesdays and Thursdays.		 West Seattle

Email or call 206-923-0853 at least 48 hours in advance - locations are subject to change
Saturday,
June 1
10 a.m. -
2 p.m.

Restoration: West Hylebos Wetlands Park
Join EarthCorps/Friends of the Hylebos in working at the beautiful West Hylebos Wetlands Park, home to one of the few remaining intact peat bogs in Puget Sound. Remove invasive blackberry and continue to protect this valuable resource in Federal Way. Wetlands provide essential wildlife habitat and attractive places for people to relax, stroll and learn about rich natural ecosystems.

 West Hylebos Wetlands Park, Federal Way Volunteer Team,
206-322-9296,
EarthCorps
Saturday,
June 1
10 a.m. -
2 p.m. 		Forest Restoration: Volunteer Work Party
Each work party begins with a short informal forest ecology workshop, and we spend the remainder of the time performing various restoration activities, including planting native trees and shrubs, removing invasive species, mulching previously-planted areas, and more. To connect art into this project we hire local musicians to perform in the woods during many work parties. Event will occur at 14th Ave. SW and SW Holly St.
*Volunteer work parties are also held year round on Tuesdays and Thursdays.		 West Seattle

Email or call 206-923-0853 at least 48 hours in advance - locations are subject to change
Saturday,
June 8
10 a.m. -
2 p.m. 		Forest Restoration: Volunteer Work Party
Each work party begins with a short informal forest ecology workshop, and we spend the remainder of the time performing various restoration activities, including planting native trees and shrubs, removing invasive species, mulching previously-planted areas, and more. To connect art into this project we hire local musicians to perform in the woods during many work parties. Event will occur at 14th Ave. SW and SW Holly St.
*Volunteer work parties are also held year round on Tuesdays and Thursdays.		 West Seattle

Email or call 206-923-0853 at least 48 hours in advance - locations are subject to change
Saturday,
June 22
10 a.m. -
2 p.m. 		Forest Restoration: Volunteer Work Party
Each work party begins with a short informal forest ecology workshop, and we spend the remainder of the time performing various restoration activities, including planting native trees and shrubs, removing invasive species, mulching previously-planted areas, and more. To connect art into this project we hire local musicians to perform in the woods during many work parties. Event will occur at 1901 SW Genessee St.
*Volunteer work parties are also held year round on Tuesdays and Thursdays.		 West Seattle

Email or call 206-923-0853 at least 48 hours in advance - locations are subject to change
Saturday,
June 29
10 a.m. -
2 p.m. 		Forest Restoration: Volunteer Work Party
Each work party begins with a short informal forest ecology workshop, and we spend the remainder of the time performing various restoration activities, including planting native trees and shrubs, removing invasive species, mulching previously-planted areas, and more. To connect art into this project we hire local musicians to perform in the woods during many work parties. Event will occur at 1901 SW Genessee St.
*Volunteer work parties are also held year round on Tuesdays and Thursdays.		 West Seattle

Email or call 206-923-0853 at least 48 hours in advance - locations are subject to change
Saturday,
August 3
10 a.m. -
2 p.m.

Forest Restoration: Panther Lake
Join EarthCorps to remove invasive plants and perform restoration site maintenance in an effort to restore the urban forest at Panther Lake. Panther Lake Open Space is a 78.72 acre greenspace which serves as wonderful habitat with a year-round body of water and forested walking trails. Open space trail system around Panther Lake connects to the BPA Trail and the West Campus Trail. Wetland areas such as Panther Lake provide essential wildlife habitat and attractive places for people to relax, stroll and learn about rich natural ecosystems.

Panther Lake, Federal Way Volunteer Team,
206-322-9296,
EarthCorps
Saturday,
October 19
10 a.m. -
1 p.m.

Restore the Duwamish Hill Preserve
Join volunteers to help restore this culturally significant park preserve. The Hill is culturally significant for its association with southern Puget Sound Salish oral tradition and history, as a key location in the stories collectively known as the "Epic of the Winds". Event activities include invasive weed removal and other restoration projects. Meet at the parking lot at the base of the preserve at 10:00 a.m. The address of the preserve and parking lot is 3800 S 115th St., Tukwila.

If you are under 18 and attending the event without a parent or guardian, please come to the event with the waiver below signed by a parent or guardian. Download the wavier here.

 Tukwila Register: Katie Cava
Saturday,
October 26
10 a.m. -
2 p.m.

Forest Restoration: Brooklake Blueberry Farm
Join EarthCorps and the City of Federal Way as we restore this historically significant site! Fun fact: this site is home to a former blueberry farm. The blueberry patch still exists today and is free and open to the public during blueberry season. In addition to a relatively healthy riparian area and upland forest the Hylebos Creek runs through this site. Salmon are often seen in this portion of the Hylebos Creek. Current work at the park includes removing Himalayan blackberry, and in the winter planting native trees and shrubs.

From Seattle, take I-5 south to exit 142B. Merge onto S. 348th St. heading west. Turn left (south) onto Pacific Hwy (Hwy 99). Turn right (west) onto S. 356th St. Turn right into Brook Lake Community Center parking lot and continue driving west through the lot wrapping back towards S. 356th St. You will see our registration table in a grassy clearing near the road on your right. Park in this smaller dirt lot opposite our registration area.

 Brooklake Blueberry Farm, Federal Way Volunteer Team,
206-322-9296,
EarthCorps
Saturday,
November 2
10 a.m. -
2 p.m.

Forest Restoration: Panther Lake
Join EarthCorps to remove invasive plants and perform restoration site maintenance in an effort to restore the urban forest at Panther Lake. Panther Lake Open Space is a 78.72 acre greenspace which serves as wonderful habitat with a year-round body of water and forested walking trails. Open space trail system around Panther Lake connects to the BPA Trail and the West Campus Trail. Wetland areas such as Panther Lake provide essential wildlife habitat and attractive places for people to relax, stroll and learn about rich natural ecosystems.

Panther Lake, Federal Way Volunteer Team,
206-322-9296,
EarthCorps
Saturday,
November 16
10 a.m. -
2 p.m.

Restoration: West Hylebos Wetlands Park
Join EarthCorps/Friends of the Hylebos in working at the beautiful West Hylebos Wetlands Park, home to one of the few remaining intact peat bogs in Puget Sound. Remove invasive blackberry and continue to protect this valuable resource in Federal Way. Wetlands provide essential wildlife habitat and attractive places for people to relax, stroll and learn about rich natural ecosystems.

 West Hylebos Wetlands Park, Federal Way Volunteer Team,
206-322-9296,
EarthCorps