Seattle Parks and Recreation’s Urban Forestry Unit will make a presentation to the Hawthorne Hills Community Council at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 17 at the Brig at Magnuson Park, 6334 N.E. 74th St., on upcoming forest restoration work along the Burke-Gilman Trail.
 
Parks and Recreation is working in cooperation with the Cascade Land Conservancy and other organizations, under the “canopy” of the Green Seattle Partnership, to restore 2,500 acres of forested park property by the year 2025.
 
This goal includes forest restoration along the Burke Gilman Trail. Work will begin at the Burke Gilman Trail, with the guidance of the trail’s own Vegetation Management Plan (www.seattle.gov/parks/BurkeGilman/Bgplan), in July of this year.
 
Restoration will begin with the removal of invasive species between 40th Avenue Northeast and Northeast 65th Street this summer, and will continue with the planting of native trees and shrubs in this area in the fall of 2009. This work will build on existing community volunteer work already in progress.
 
For more information about the Green Seattle Partnership, please see http://www.seattle.gov/mayor/newsdetail.asp?ID=9242&dept=40 and http://www.greenseattle.org/.