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Learn more about the Duwamish Alive Coalition and the difference our work is making.

We're Friendly, Dedicated and Passionate

Duwamish Alive collaborates with community, municipalities, non-profits and businesses within the Duwamish River Watershed to preserve and enhance habitat for people and wildlife, towards improving the health of the Puget Sound. Click here to learn more.

Explore

The Duwamish is made up of a collection of habitat-rich sites. Come explore this amazing area.

Explore and Learn

The Duwamish River is a working waterfront that is also a fishing and recreational resource.
Learn more by visiting the Duwamish Sites

Get Involved

Join other community members in helping to restore the great Duwamish.

So Many Worthwhile Events

If you’re excited about volunteering we’ve got lots of events for you to match your skill set to!

Visit our Calendar to see current events.

Featured

Restoring our river and watershed's health, while connecting with other volunteers making a difference.

Upcoming Events

Duwamish Alive! Earth Month Celebration April 15th 10 – 2 Join us for Duwamish Alive! for a day of collaborative stewardship effort across our watershed, recognizing that our collective efforts are needed to make lasting, positive improvements in the health and vitality of the Green-Duwamish Watershed. Twice a year these events organize hundreds of volunteers to work at multiple sites in the river’s watershed, connecting the efforts of communities from Auburn to Seattle. Volunteers’ efforts include, a river cleanup by kayak, shoreline salmon habitat restoration, and native forest revitalization. To volunteer, the following are your volunteer opportunities which have registration links to our partners hosting each site, or email info@duwamishalive.org for additional information: Pigeon Point, Seattle with Delridge Neighborhood Development Assn həʔapus Village Park, Seattle with DIRT Corps Herrings House Park, Seattle with Green Seattle Partnership Duwamish Hill Preserve, Tukwila with Green Tukwila Partnership Cecil Moses Park, Tukwila with King County Parks Coming Soon: Registration for Additional Sites: Duwamish River Kayak Cleanup, Seattle with Puget Soundkeeper Alliance with more to come so please check back soon! Green-Duwamish River Salmon — Do You Know — Our river’s 5 species of salmon are fearlessly returning from their amazing life journey which started as eggs in gravel nests (only less than 1% will return to spawn) in the southern part of the watershed’s river, creeks and channels. As the young salmon grew, they started their great journey traveling down the river towards the ocean, where their bodies changed from living in fresh water to adapting to the salt water of the ocean. This change starts in the river where tidal flows start to occur in Tukwila and is know as the important transition zone, making the young salmon ready for their life in the ocean. As the young salmon reach Elliot Bay, they move along the shoreline feeding and resting with the Pacific Ocean as their destination. They have lived in the ocean from 2 – 7 years before they start their long journey home to their birth place, sometimes traveling thousands of miles to the creek of their birth. These amazing salmon have survived predators, shrinking habitat and climate change to give life to their next generations. Can you name all 5 of the river’s salmon species? (Chinook/King, Coho, Pink, Chum, Sockeye) Not only is their life journey amazing but the salmon web of life which has developed over thousands of years with over 130 wildlife species dependent on salmon, trees which have salmon DNA from salmon carcasses fertilizing the soil, and their cultural and economic regional importance. You can see these astonishing salmon on their journey in spring to the ocean as juveniles and then as adults returning at these locations along the river : t̓uʔəlaltxʷ Village Park, 4260 W Marginal Way SW, Seattle 98106 Herrings House and həʔapus Village Parks, 4750 W Marginal Way SW, Seattle, 98106 Duwamish River People’s Park and Shoreline Habitat, 8700 Dallas Ave S, Seattle, 98108 Cecil Moses Park and North Wind’s Weir, 2914 South 112th St. Tukwila, 98168 Codiga Park, 50th Place South, Tukwila, 98178 Fort Dent Park, 6800 Fort Dent Way, Tukwila, 98188 Longfellow Creek Diary Project Our iconic Longfellow Creek runs the length of West Seattle, From its headwaters at Roxhill Park to Elliot Bay, the creek is an important part of this city’s story and that of our community. We want your personal stories of the creek in this community Diary of Longfellow – past experiences, current activities or special memories, all help to tell the tapestry of Longfellow’s story throughout time. If you have historic photos of the creek that you would like to share as a part of this project, please email: museum@longhousemuseum.org This is a collaborative project with Log House Museum, Duwamish Alive Coalition, Delridge Neighborhood Development Assn, and Tom Reese. *SHARE YOUR LONGFELLOW CREEK STORIES* Rescuing Roxhill Bog …. Why it matters, What has been accomplished so far. As one of the last remaining ancient peat bogs (over 10,000 years old) in Seattle, Roxhill Bog has a unique ecosystem and is the headwaters of Longfellow Creek, which runs 3.5 miles through West Seattle before it reaches Elliot Bay. Roxhill Bog plays an important part of the creek’s watershed, as the drainage basin for sixty surrounding acres, collecting sediments and pollutants from rain and storm water run off. Plants absorb some pollutants while the spongy peat soil helps filter sediments, essential for providing healthy water quality. Longfellow Creek is one of Seattle’s few salmon spawning creeks. Climate change and urbanization has impacted the health of Roxhill Bog, reducing the amounts of water flowing into the wetland to maintain its healthy ecosystem. Water that would normally flow into the bog has been diverted into storm drainage systems while climate change has increased summer temperatures and reduced rainfall causing the peat to dry and degrade. Visit our Roxhill Bog page for additional information and to get updates on the restoration project. Download your Green Duwamish Journey Guide Book Free Nature Vision Student Packets (K – 12)

Duwamish Alive! Earth Month Celebration April 15th 10 – 2

Join us for Duwamish Alive! for a day of collaborative stewardship effort across our watershed, recognizing that our collective efforts are needed to make lasting, positive improvements in the health and vitality of the Green-Duwamish Watershed. Twice a year these events organize hundreds of volunteers to work at multiple sites in the river’s watershed, connecting the efforts of communities from Auburn to Seattle. Volunteers’ efforts include, a river cleanup by kayak, shoreline salmon habitat restoration, and native forest revitalization.

To volunteer, the following are your volunteer opportunities which have registration links to our partners hosting each site, or email info@duwamishalive.org for additional information:

Pigeon Point, Seattle with Delridge Neighborhood Development Assn

həʔapus Village Park, Seattle with DIRT Corps

Herrings House Park, Seattle with Green Seattle Partnership

Duwamish Hill Preserve, Tukwila with Green Tukwila Partnership

Cecil Moses Park, Tukwila with King County Parks

Coming Soon: Registration for Additional Sites:

Duwamish River Kayak Cleanup, Seattle with Puget Soundkeeper Alliance

with more to come so please check back soon!

Green-Duwamish River Salmon — Do You Know —

Our river’s 5 species of salmon are fearlessly returning from their amazing life journey which started as eggs in gravel nests (only less than 1% will return to spawn) in the southern part of the watershed’s river, creeks and channels. As the young salmon grew, they started their great journey traveling down the river towards the ocean, where their bodies changed from living in fresh water to adapting to the salt water of the ocean. This change starts in the river where tidal flows start to occur in Tukwila and is know as the important transition zone, making the young salmon ready for their life in the ocean. As the young salmon reach Elliot Bay, they move along the shoreline feeding and resting with the Pacific Ocean as their destination. They have lived in the ocean from 2 – 7 years before they start their long journey home to their birth place, sometimes traveling thousands of miles to the creek of their birth. These amazing salmon have survived predators, shrinking habitat and climate change to give life to their next generations.

Can you name all 5 of the river’s salmon species?

(Chinook/King, Coho, Pink, Chum, Sockeye)

Not only is their life journey amazing but the salmon web of life which has developed over thousands of years with over 130 wildlife species dependent on salmon, trees which have salmon DNA from salmon carcasses fertilizing the soil, and their cultural and economic regional importance. You can see these astonishing salmon on their journey in spring to the ocean as juveniles and then as adults returning at these locations along the river :

t̓uʔəlaltxʷ Village Park, 4260 W Marginal Way SW, Seattle 98106

Herrings House and həʔapus Village Parks, 4750 W Marginal Way SW, Seattle, 98106

Duwamish River People’s Park and Shoreline Habitat, 8700 Dallas Ave S, Seattle, 98108

Cecil Moses Park and North Wind’s Weir, 2914 South 112th St. Tukwila, 98168

Codiga Park, 50th Place South, Tukwila, 98178

Fort Dent Park, 6800 Fort Dent Way, Tukwila, 98188

Longfellow Creek Diary Project

Our iconic Longfellow Creek runs the length of West Seattle, From its headwaters at Roxhill Park to Elliot Bay, the creek is an important part of this city’s story and that of our community. We want your personal stories of the creek in this community Diary of Longfellow – past experiences, current activities or special memories, all help to tell the tapestry of Longfellow’s story throughout time. If you have historic photos of the creek that you would like to share as a part of this project, please email: museum@longhousemuseum.org

This is a collaborative project with Log House Museum, Duwamish Alive Coalition, Delridge Neighborhood Development Assn, and Tom Reese.

SHARE YOUR LONGFELLOW CREEK STORIES

Rescuing Roxhill Bog …. Why it matters, What has been accomplished so far.

As one of the last remaining ancient peat bogs (over 10,000 years old) in Seattle, Roxhill Bog has a unique ecosystem and is the headwaters of Longfellow Creek, which runs 3.5 miles through West Seattle before it reaches Elliot Bay. Roxhill Bog plays an important part of the creek’s watershed, as the drainage basin for sixty surrounding acres, collecting sediments and pollutants from rain and storm water run off. Plants absorb some pollutants while the spongy peat soil helps filter sediments, essential for providing healthy water quality. Longfellow Creek is one of Seattle’s few salmon spawning creeks.

Climate change and urbanization has impacted the health of Roxhill Bog, reducing the amounts of water flowing into the wetland to maintain its healthy ecosystem. Water that would normally flow into the bog has been diverted into storm drainage systems while climate change has increased summer temperatures and reduced rainfall causing the peat to dry and degrade. Visit our Roxhill Bog page for additional information and to get updates on the restoration project.