Travels with Charlie: Ronald Bog Park Wetlands
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
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| Ronald Bog Park Photo by Gordon Snyder |
We headed to Ronald Bog Park 2301 N 175th St, Shoreline, WA 98133 to look over the wetlands before everything started leafing out. Lots to see and to sniff.
This is an amazing example of Urban Wetlands that are being restored. A piece of Nature surrounded by I-5 on the East, N 175th on the North, Meridian Ave N on the West and residences on the South. It looks like natural progress has been happening over the last couple years.
The Canadian Geese have taken up residence and were grazing the lawns. Their droppings are everywhere. The riparian areas are preparing to explode with warmer spring days.
Bog Water is clear this time of year, but has warnings about contact because of possible urban pollution and algal blooms. That’s a tough challenge as restoration continues.
If you’re interested in an example of our local conifers, there is a small arboretum with living examples. Just a brief walk along the path.
Diane Hettrick wrote a terrific Shoreline Area News 2019 article about the Wetlands Restoration
”What’s Happening with Ronald Bog Park?”
The Ronald Bog is fighting huge odds becoming a wetlands once again. But given a chance Water and Biology will make it happen.
Check out Ronald Bog over the seasons because it will always be changing...
If you’re interested in an example of our local conifers, there is a small arboretum with living examples. Just a brief walk along the path.
Diane Hettrick wrote a terrific Shoreline Area News 2019 article about the Wetlands Restoration
”What’s Happening with Ronald Bog Park?”
The Ronald Bog is fighting huge odds becoming a wetlands once again. But given a chance Water and Biology will make it happen.
Check out Ronald Bog over the seasons because it will always be changing...
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3 comments:
You can help wetland restoration by keeping your dog at home. Even if you are a responsible dog owner and pick up poop, dogs still pee, which is not good for the wetland.
Not many people know that what we now call Ronald Bog once extend over Meridian and took up all the property now called Meridian School. It was used as a log holding pond by the loggers who were clearing the area. When I attended Cordell Hull (former name of Meridian Park) I interviewed an elderly lady who had a small house on Ashworth overlooking the school. She showed me pictures of the entire pond that stretched across the bowl which is now the field for the school. Her dad was the foreman of the operation and she said she used to sit in the window of that house and watch the bears eat the berries growing around the perimeter of the water.
Canadian Geese are an invasive species that have outworn their welcome.
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