Collaboration is at the heart of floodplains By Heather Cole The moment was clear, March 5th, 2020, during our regular Culture and Capacity (C&C) Action Group meeting. Part of that meeting was to plan the Floodplains by Design in-person spring gathering. At that...
Leadership Update By Bob Carey Dear Floodplains by Design Partners, We want to celebrate with you the achievement of a significant milestone in the Floodplains by Design (FbD) program. As of February 2021, Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF), under the direction...
A Tale of Three Meetings Learning the ins and outs of online collaboration " Photo: Keith Lazelle This spring, the Floodplains by Design Culture & Capacity group hosted five Virtual Coffee sessions on Zoom that focused how to shift in person meetings to an...
LEQUE ISLAND Restoring tidal marsh habitat " Photo: Courtney Baxter/TNC Leque Island was once entirely salt marsh. But if you were to visit the island today, located west of Stanwood between Port Susan and Skagit bays, you would see vast wetlands and previously...
CHANGES ARE COMING Snohomish County Agriculture Resilience Plan " Photo: Paul Joseph Brown/Lighthawk On a damp December evening, we watched the sunset and the mist rise from the fields surrounding Carlton Farms, on the outskirts of Everett, as we walked the path...
PLANTING SEEDS OF COLLABORATION Stillaguamish River Valley " As a local farmer and small business owner, Tristan Klesick’s livelihood is tied to the rich “resource lands” of Snohomish County – the farms, forests, natural habitat, open...
