Northwest Olympia Watersheds
left|300pxNorthwest Olympia is a set of neighborhoods that occupy the populated areas between the City of Olympia core, and The Evergreen State College at the base of the Cooper Point Peninsula which sits between Budd Inlet and Eld Inlet in the South Puget Sound basin. It includes five ecosystem sites each of which is a distinct landform. These include West Bay Watersheds, Schneider Creek Watershed, Crestline Coastal Watershed, Butler Cove Watershed, and Green Cove Watershed. As is common in the Salish Sea lowlands, these catchments share a flat area of groundwater recharge on the glacial plateau, between Division Street and Cooper Point road that I like to call “the swales”. Because of culture, location, transportation network and hydrology, I think of these as one complex social-ecological system on the NW urbanizing edge of Olympia.
This landscape is the home of the first chapter of the Ecosystem Guild, an experimental effort to weave together stewards and custodians of the land into a coherent network of action.
Relationships
- related to: Marine Mammal Observations
- related to: budd inlet
- related to: capitol land trust
- related to: citizen science observations of wet and dry
- related to: city of everett
- related to: cooper point peninsula
- related to: dnr
- related to: ecosystem guild
- related to: ecosystem sites
- related to: grass lakes nature reserve
- related to: green cove creek
- related to: grub
- related to: landform
- related to: national estuary program
- related to: olympia coalition for ecosystems preservation
- related to: olympic mudminnow
- related to: plants for the people nursery
- related to: scatter creek watershed
- related to: south puget sound
- related to: squalichew creek estuary
- related to: sundberg gravel pit
- related to: the nature conservancy
- related to: thurston county population density mapper
- related to: thurston county
- related to: us fish and wildlife service
- related to: west bay watersheds
- related to: wild fish conservancy
- related to: woods creek watershed