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I am very proud to announce that the Urban Forestry Project, created by the Green Seattle Partnership in conjunction with Regalis, has won Environmental Education Association of Washington's Community Catalyst Award. I worked on and photographed for this wonderful project with the students of Gatewood Elementary School and Chief Sealth International High School in West Seattle, my alma mater. One of the catalyst projects was cleaning up and planting trees in the Pelly Place Natural Area...
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I am very proud to announce that the Urban Forestry Project, created by the Green Seattle Partnership in conjunction with Regalis, has won Environmental Education Association of Washington's Community Catalyst Award. I worked on and photographed for this wonderful project with the students of Gatewood Elementary School and Chief Sealth International High School in West Seattle, my alma mater. One of the catalyst projects was cleaning up and planting trees in the Pelly Place Natural Area with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai. It was truly inspirational.

The Green Seattle Partnership (GSP) is composed of entities including the Cascade Land Conservancy and Seattle Parks and Recreation. Under their leadership, grant funds were acquired from the US Forest Service with the purpose of creating a program to model educational learning objectives of the Seattle School District and integrate with Seattle Parks' Environmental Learning Centers.

The Urban Forestry Project (UFP) is a program that educates high school, middle, and elementary school students to explore urban forestry issues on lands adjacent to their schools and improve the health of their forests in a sustainable way. Students participate in real-world science by evaluating the habitat, forming a study hypothesis, designing their study, and implementing field investigations based on their research. The Urban Forestry Project incorporates multi-grade teaching that begins with high school students conducting scientific investigations that analyze the health of their local forests.

http://eeaw.org/awards
http://www.regalis.biz/home.shtml
http://greenseattle.org/
http://www.greenbeltmovement.org/w.php?id=59
http://www.cascadeland.org/
http://www.cityofseattle.net/parks/environment/learning.htm
http://www.seattleschools.org/schools/chiefsealth/
http://www.gatewoodelementary.org/
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