Edmonds Marsh Wildlife Sanctuary

Project description

Preserving and enhancing this unique tidal wetland and its historic lands (Unocal property) for salmon, wildlife and future generations enjoyment of urban natural areas.

The projects required for successful completion include:

Removing and controlling invasive plant species (including Bittersweet Nightshade and Purple Loosestrife), that impede water flow through the Marsh
Fully completing the environmental cleanup of Chevron’s Unocal site
Acquisition of the Unocal property by the City of Edmonds
Connecting the Marsh to Puget Sound with a clean open channel

Volunteers-pulling-and-rolling-out-dense-nighthade-roots-from-stream-channel
BEFORE-Nightshade-thicket-along-fenceline
Volunteers-opening-up-the-creek-channel
BEFORE-Volunteer-John-Brock-searching-for-creek-channel-enveloped-in-nightshade
BEFORE-Nightshade-growing-up-and-killing-trees
Heavy-lifting-students-removing-mass-of-nightshade-roots-from-channel
Last tree planted 2024
AFTER-Shellabarger-Creek-reestablished-along-banks-of-Highway-104
Volunteers-using-pallet-bridges-to-carry-out-extracted-nightshade
Volunteers-removing-thickets-of-nightshade-off-fence
Heavy-lifting-students-removing-mass-of-nightshade-roots-from-channel-
AFTER-Volunteers-succeed-in-re-establsihing-creek-channel-to-middle-of-Marsh
AFTER-Chainlink-and-nightshade-removed-opening-up-creek-channel
AFTER-Creek-restablished-pallets-still-in-place-so-volunteers-can-exit-the-wetland
Volunteers-removing-entrenched-chainlink-fencing
olunteers-remving-nightshade-from-trees-native-vegetation-and-apparent-creek-channel
Planting trees 2024
Planting trees 2024
Planting trees 2024
Nightshade covering tree
After removing nightshade
Oct-Tree-Planting
Marsh-Volunteers-planting
Nightshade climbing on cattails over creek
Creekbank restoration in the Marsh
Mary Ramirez from WRIA 8 pulling Nightshade
Opening the creek
Removing Nightshade
Opening the creek