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Potential acquisitions to connect and extend existing green space in Kiwanis
Ravine.
Kiwanis Ravine is just a block east of Discovery Park in Seattle's Magnolia
neighborhood. This urban forest and wildlife corridor is home to Seattle's
largest great blue heron nesting colony, with 59 active nests in 2006 (an
increase from 37 nests in 2000). The great blue herons nest in the colony
from about February through mid-summer each year.
In 1993, the City adopted the Greenspace Policy to encourage the preservation
of green spaces in Seattle. The policy included maps for more than 30 greenspaces.
The policy aimed to preserve natural landscape and habitat; provide natural
buffers between land uses; mitigate noise and air pollution; reduce need
for constructed storm water systems; and preserve natural drainage. Kiwanis
Ravine was one of the green spaces mapped in the policy.
COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
Heron Habitat Helpers, Friends of Discovery Park, and
other citizen groups, including Washington Native Plant Society, volunteer
to preserve and restore Kiwanis Ravine. Their activities have included
a major "Ivy-Out" effort.
On November 12, 2002, the Pro Parks Levy Oversight Committee included
Kiwanis Ravine among the greenspaces to be further considered for acquistion
through the Pro Parks Levy Green Spaces category.
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