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From The Olympian January 16, 2023 By Ty Vinson Summit Desmarteau has been running and hiking in the woods near Thurgood Marshall Middle School in Olympia for three years now. But when he returned to school after last summer, he was devastated to see half of the wooded area was cut down. On Friday, Jan. […]

From The Olympian October 4, 2022 One morning in late September, a mother deer led her fawn through the wreckage of what was once a complex forest. The pair weaved between smoldering mulch piles the size of houses to eat whatever greenery they could find. More than 20 acres of trees were cut down in

From The Olympian May 7, 2021 By Rolf Boone The nonprofit Olympia Coalition for Ecosystems Preservation, also known as Oly Ecosystems, has acquired a parcel of land in west Olympia for conservation, the organization announced. The acquisition was made possible by a $212,000 donation from an anonymous couple in the community and a matching donation

From The Olympian Feb 10, 2020 By Sara Gentzler The woods above West Bay Drive may be unassuming from the roadway that hugs Budd Inlet’s shoreline. But venture to the other side of the woods, on Rogers Street Northwest near the Olympia Food Co-op, and you’ll find an evolving pocket of restoration and conservation. “It’s

By Abby Spegman From The Olympian July 7, 2018 Eleven-year-old Sam Thompson took a step back to wrestle a 4-foot-long English ivy root from the ground on the edge of West Bay Woods on Olympia’s west side. “It’s a big one,” he shouted to his sister, Claire, 8, who stood downhill with an ivy root

From The Olympian August 19, 2016 By Andy Hobbs The Olympia City Council has approved the purchase of two properties near the city’s lone great blue heron colony in the West Bay woods. The deal will add about 2.75 acres to the area that surrounds and protects the colony, also known as a rookery or

From The Olympian December 3, 2015 Letter to the Editor, by Daniel Einstein OlyEcosystems enthusiastically endorses the Yes Olympia Parks campaign to pass Proposition 1 for the creation of the Olympia Metropolitan Park District (MPD). Our city is at a crossroads. Over the past twenty years, our city has lost about 3,500 acres of habitat,

From The Olympian October 15, 2014 By Andy Hobbs – Staff Writer Land purchase will help protect great blue herons in Olympia An Olympia woman has purchased land containing the city’s lone great blue heron colony in an effort to protect the birds from a nearby townhome development. This month, Alicia Elliott bought the 1.84-acre

From the West Olympia News By Sage Hamilton and Danny Stusser No city permits were needed to begin logging 23+ acres on Cooper Point Road Olympia residents near 20th Avenue NW and Cooper Point Road were surprised this morning when they discovered that 20th Avenue was being shut down with no notice for a logging

Over the past couple of Saturdays, you have helped us remove literally tens of thousands of little scotch broom starts. We are making headway, but we are not done. Tens of thousands of small (6”-10”) scotch broom seedlings are distributed throughout the site will grow quickly and threaten our progress in reforestation. The good news