Adopt a Stream Foundation to host April 12 volunteer event
ARLINGTON — Adopt a Stream Foundation, an education and habitat restoration nonprofit, will host a volunteer event 9 a.m. to noon Saturday on the banks of Olaf Strad Creek near Arlington.
The nonprofit is encouraging community members to walk, run or roll along the county’s Centennial Trail to the meeting spot approximately 4 miles south of the Haller Park Trailhead or less than a mile north from the Armar Road Trailhead.
Once volunteers reach the site, they will assist in restoring salmon habitat by planting native trees and plants and removing invasive ones. After the work party, volunteers can enjoy a 10% discount at In the Shadow Brewing, 102 E Division St., Suite 102, Arlington.
“This part of Olaf Strad Creek is very unique,” said Stream Restoration Manager Walter Rung in a press release. “During the summer of 2021, our Stream Team created a new 600-foot long stream channel on a field owned by Snohomish County Parks, then, relocated the creek where it was flowing in a roadside ditch along 162nd St. NE and 67 Ave. NE into the new channel. That fall, we planted stream side vegetation next to the new channel and were treated to seeing salmon spawn in this new habitat.”
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