Want some good wholesome exercise on a brisk November morning? Sure you do! And DCNA has you covered! We’re organizing a work party in the eastern portion of the Juanita Woodlands on Saturday, November 5, to clean out blackberries and other invasives so that we’ll be ready to plant over 2000 new trees in January. We’ll meet at 9am on 120 th Street, which runs east from Juanita Drive (just below the Plaza Garcia Restaurant). Park on the street. If you have hand tools — lopper

The Salmon Watcher Program trains volunteers to identify and record species and numbers of spawning salmonids in streams in the Lake Washington Watershed. Denny Creek is one of the streams listed by King County. Here is a page at the King County website identifying fish seen in Denny Creek:  http://1.usa.gov/oOdXIW The King County Salmon Watcher training sessions for 2011 have been scheduled! You need attend only one training session to be a volunteer. Trainings are 7 to 9 p.

DCNA’s board recently reviewed its objectives for 2011-2012. Following is a brief description of what we chose as our priorities. We will be adding more information about each to our website in the next few months, but, in the meantime, take a look at the summaries below and let us know what you think. Even better, if they look like activities that you would like to get involved in, please let us know. None of these projects will move forward without community support, and th

Kirkland Youth Lacrosse (KYL) wants to convert an unimproved field in Big Finn Hill Park, now used for soccer practice in the dry months of the year, into an all season lacrosse pitch with lights for nighttime use. KYL’s proposal has been supported by some residents of Finn Hill and opposed by others. DCNA has not taken a position on the matter, other than to raise questions about certain aspects of the field’s likely impact on neighbors at night and on surface water drainage

On July 21, DCNA submitted comments to King County Parks on an environmental checklist that Kirkland Youth Lacrosse prepared for its proposed lacrosse field project in Big Finn Hill Park. The SEPA (State Environmental Protection Act) checklist and related information concerning the project that have been posted on the King County Parks Department web site: http://www.kingcounty.gov/recreation/parks/about/notices/bigfinn.aspx . In brief, DCNA’s comments questioned the adequacy

A Secret History of O.O. Denny Park By Donald Mackey The sky was blue over the lake, with a nice ripple, that Sunday afternoon last winter. Donald Mackey and his wife Dianne were enjoying the rare sunny day, walking along the slope of the hill, past the railroad ties. Near the bridge over the mouth of O.O. Denny Creek, he lingered by the water’s edge, taking in the woodsy scent of the stream where he had so often fished for trout as a kid. When his parents and grandparents we

Two Board positions on the Finn Hill Park & Recreation District Commission will be on the ballot for the November 2011 election....

The Juanita Woodlands are one of the few remaining islands of forests amidst the rampant commercial and residential development...

Kirkland Views documented the January planting of 2000 tree saplings and removal of invasive plant species. Watch the video below. Can't...

The following essay was written for O.O. Denny Park Community Pride Day, September 24, 1995, by Debbie Dimitri and Ellen Haas A long,...

Finn Hill Park and Recreation District Because of staggering budgetary shortfalls in the next few years, King County has become unable to...