• PROTECTING + ENHANCING THE GREEN RIVER + OUR WATERSHED

    Green River Coalition collaborates with community, municipalities, nonprofits, educational institutions and other agencies to protect and enhance theGreen River and our watershed.

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    Volunteer!

    If you like to get your hands dirty by planting trees or removing invasive plants, you can help by signing up to volunteer at one of our many events!

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    Partner with us!

    We love creating new partnerships to help protect our environment! Sign up here if you have an event or project that you would like to partner with us on. 

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    Make a donation!

    Whether a one time or monthly donation, all donations go right back into our coalition to help protect and enhance our beautiful watershed!

  • DONATE

    All donations go right
    back into our coalition!

  • UPCOMING EVENTS

    Email michael@greenrivercoalition.org if you have a project you would like to partner on.

    Duwamish Alive - Earth Day 2023

    When: April 15th, 2023 (Saturday)
    Time: 10am - 2pm
    Where: Riverview Park (Kent)
    Address: 937 Hawley Rd, Kent, WA 98032

     

    Earth Day is a very speicial event for us and is one of our annual events in partnership with the city of Kent and Duwamish Alive, where we get to help our Southern Resident killer whales! At this event we will be continuing to remove invasive species to help the successful establishment of the plants that we have installed over the years!

     

    *Drinks and snacks will be provided*

     

    Please visit the link to sign up: http://eepurl.com/gh3IUv

  • Past Events

    Novermber 19th, 2022

    Since we had to cancel our Orca Recovery Day 2022 October event due to air quality, we were happy to see such a turn our for this rescheduled event! It was a great day of learning all about how our restoration work has a cascade effect to help the salmon upstream and orca downstream! We were also able to remove invasive plants like Himalayan blackberry and bind weed and replace them with over 100 native plants and shrubs!

    October 29th, 2022

    Kent Parks' Re-LEAF Event!

    It was great to partner with Kent Parks at their ReLEAF event at Riverview Park in Kent! It was a fun and beautiful day of removing invasive plants and replacing them with native trees and shrubs. This helps restore the park and the Green River that runs through it!

    June 4, 2022

    Orcas and the Green-Duwamish River

    We were very honored to partner with Orca Conservancy and Whale Scouts for this event! We had many educational vendors, guest speakers, and hosted a restoration work party along the mainstem Green River in Tukwila! We will be focused on education about Orcas and how healthy rivers and streams have a cascade effect to help save the Orca! Thank you to everyone who came out!

    April 16, 2022

    Orca Recovery Day/Duwamish Alive!

    Another GREAT event at Riverview Park! We partnered with The City of Kent, Mid-Sound Fisheries Enhancement Group, and Duwamish Alive to celebrate Earth Day 2022! We removed the regrowth of invasive blackberry and live staked Red Osier Dogwood the combat the presence of r! Visit our Instagram page to watch the Livestream of the event!

    October 16, 2021

    Orca Recovery Day/Duwamish Alive!

    We were back at it again at our Riverview Park Site! We partnered with The City of Kent, Mid-Sound Fisheries Enhancement Group, and Duwamish Alive to host the largest event we've had all year! We removed invasive blackberry and replaced them with native plants to protects the salmon upstream and orca downstream! Visit our Instagram page to watch the Livestream of the event!

    April 17, 2021

    2021 Earth Day Tree Planting!

    We partnered, again, with the city of Kent and Duwamish Alive to host a restoration planting event at the beautiful Riverview Park in Kent.

    We planted native trees and shrubs along critical habitat of the main stem Green River which has many benefits to the river. Establishing native plants helps stabilize the river to prevent erosion and shade out the river which helps keep dissolved oxygen in the water! This helps local fish like the chinook salmon which are a main food source for resident orca!

    January 20th, 2020

    Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service!
    On January 20th 2020, we partnered with Mid-Sound Fisheries Enhancement Group, The City of Auburn, and The King County United Way to host a planting event at Fenster Park! We had over 80 volunteers and planted 150 native trees and shrubs! What a great way to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for a Day of Service!

    October 19 th , 2019

    Orca Recovery Day!

    Riverview Park Restoration Work Party!

    We restored a critical portion of Riverview Park in Kent to help restore habitat for our native salmon which is the main food source for our resident Orcas! This is an international movement with over 70 sites spanning from Napa Valley to British Columbia!

     

    September 13 th , 2019

    United Way Day of Caring

    We teamed up with Mid-Sound Fisheries Enhancement Group and King County United Way for their largest day of volunteering in Washington State! We are proud to be a part of this day! Visit the King County United Way website for more information.

    January 20th, 2019

    Shadow Lake Nature Preserve 23rd Annual Frog Frolic!

    We tabled at this annual event to educate our local community about our coalition’s mission.

  • CONNECT WITH US

  • RESTORATION PROJECTS

    Dandy / Bass / Beaver Lake Complex

    Enumclaw, WA

    Bass, Beaver, and Dandy Lakes are owned by King County.
    Originally privately owned, this important wildlife habitat was not managed or replanted after a harvest by a logger in 1999 allowing invasive blackberry to completely overtake the sites. GRC has been managing the restoration of this 9.8-acre site in collaboration with King County since 2012.

     

    Site activity:

    • Revegetation/planting (Douglas-fir, Western redcedar, Willow, Western Hemlock, etc.)
    • Watering
    • Creation of social trails and maintenance roads
    • Dried blackberry canes repurposed as mulch for access roads
    • Non-chemical weed control (organic restoration)
    • Mechanical invasive plant removal (Himalayan blackberry, Evergreen blackberry)
    • Development of monitoring and maintenance plans
    • Vegetation mapping
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    Partners:

    • King County
    • Green River College

     

    Covington Community Park

    Covington, WA

    GRC has been managing the restoration of 7.3 acres on this site in collaboration with the City of Covington, King Conservation District, and Green River College since 2014.

     

    Site activity:

    • Revegetation/planting (Douglas fir, Western hemlock, Grand fir)
    • Trail decommissioning
    • The City of Covington installed ADA-compliant trails and needed old trails removed
    • Non-chemical weed control (organic restoration)
    • Mechanical invasive plant removal (Himalayan blackberry, Evergreen blackberry, Field bindweed)
    • Watering
    • Daylighting an ephemeral stream
    • Removal of old culverts
    • Widening of stream-bed and introduction of wood debris and cobble
    • Development of monitoring and maintenance plans
    • Vegetation mapping

    Partners:

    • City of Covington
    • King Conservation District
    • Green River College

     

    Lower Soos Area

    Auburn, WA

    This site is owned by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW). GRC has been managing the restoration of this 1.8-acre site in collaboration with WDFW and King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks since 2013.

     

     

    Site activity:

    • Non-chemical weed control (organic restoration)
    • Sheet-mulching with black tarps (a multi-year process)
    • Mechanical invasive plant removal (Himalayan blackberry, Reed Canary-Grass)
    • Revegetation/planting (Douglas fir, Western redcedar, Willow, etc.)
    • Watering
    • Mulching with wood chips to retain water
    • Garbage clean-up
    • Development of monitoring and maintenance plans
    • Vegetation mapping

    Partners:

    • Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
    • King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks
    • Green River College

     

    Institute For Community Leadership

    Kent, WA

    This site is owned by the Institute for Community Leadership (ICL), a GRC partner. This property was originally open pasture with very little riparian shade or native vegetation. ICL acquired 18.2 acres in 2004 and began to restore it with the help of the Veteran Conservation Corps from Green River College and GRC.

     

     

    Site activity:

    • Non-chemical weed control (organic restoration)
    • Mechanical invasive plant removal (Himalayan blackberry)
    • Development of monitoring and maintenance plans
    • Vegetation mapping

    Partners:

    • Veteran Conservation Corps (Green River College)
    • Institute for Community Leadership

     

  • WHAT IS THE MIDDLE GREEN SUBWATERSHED?

    The Middle Green River Subwatershed starts at River Mile 32 just east of Auburn and stretches to the Howard Hanson Dam.

     

    It includes two major tributaries:

    Soos Creek on the north side of the river, draining Kent, Covington, Maple Valley, and Black Diamond and Newaukum Creek on the south side of the river, draining the Enumclaw area.

  • OUR BOARD

    We are all all volunteer Board of Directors with one paid staff.

    Greg Wingard

    President

    greg@greenrivercoalition.org

    Bernie McKinney

    Vice President

    b.mckinney@comcast.net

    Marlla Mhoon

    Treasurer

    mhoonmar@gmail.com

    Arturo Zazueta

    Secretary

    arturo@greenrivercoalition.org

    Pete Beaupain

    Member at Large

    pbeaupain@comcast.net

    Gil Bortleson

    Member at Large

    gbortles@gmail.com

    Michael Taton

    Staff Operations Manager

    michael@greenrivercoalition.org

  • From left to right: Michael, Bernie, Gil, Pete, Greg, Arturo (2019)

  • CONTACT US

    PO Box 8932
    Covington, WA 98042
    (360) 825-1000
    (360) 825-1000

  • Our Grant Funders

    Thank you to our current grant funders:

    King County Flood Control District & WRIA 9

    Cooperative Watershed Maintenance

    This fund supports projects that enhance riparian shade to improve conditions for salmon and meet water quality standards.

    Rose Foundation & Puget Soundkeeper

    Puget Sound Stewardship & Mitigation Fund

    The Puget Sound Stewardship and Mitigation Fund is dedicated to protecting the water quality of Puget Sound. It is open to a wide range of groups, from tiny grassroots groups to larger, established organizations.

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