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Hylebos Locations
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Marlake
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Marlake was created in the late 1950s when the park's founders, Francis and Ilene Marckx dug out and impounded a naturally wet area. Today, the lake provides habitat for a range of waterfowl and birds.
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Marlake was created in the late 1950s when the park's founders, Francis and Ilene Marckx dug out and impounded a naturally wet area. Today, the lake provides habitat for a range of waterfowl and birds.
Park
visitors can walk around the entire lake and enjoy bird viewing from a
number of vantage points. The park is a great place to see green-backed
and great blue herons, widgens and ducks, red-winged black birds and
the occasional bald eagle (watch out ducklings!)
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Historical Cabin Park
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For years, the West Hylebos Wetlands was a hard-to-find treasure, noted only by a small sign off S. 348th Street and accessible only by driving over a private one-lane road.
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For years, the West Hylebos Wetlands was a hard-to-find treasure, noted only by a small sign off S. 348th Street and accessible only by driving over a private one-lane road.
The
Friends joined forces with the Historical Society of Federal Way and
Federal Way Parks to develop the multi-purpose Federal Way Historical
Cabin Park, which will provide an easy-to-find entrance to the West
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Open Water Wetland
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Lakes and ponds such as Brooklake are open water wetlands. They are important feeding areas for many creatures. Millions of microscopic green algae, cyanobacteria, protozoans, and bacteria are suspended in the water, providing the base of a rich aquatic food chain.
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Lakes and ponds such as Brooklake are open water wetlands. They are important feeding areas for many creatures. Millions of microscopic green algae, cyanobacteria, protozoans, and bacteria are suspended in the water, providing the base of a rich aquatic food chain.
Worms, salamanders, and crayfish can be found crawling on and in the muddy bottom. Salamander and frog tadpoles, as well as coho salmon and cutthroat trout spend their formative months and years feeding in the lake waters. The rich plant, amphibian and fish populations attract herons, chattering kingfishers, and occasional raccoons. - 47.284528 -122.32535
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West Hylebos Wetlands Entrance
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The entrance to the West Hylebos Wetlands Park is located off S. 348th St, across from St. Francis Hospital. The new parking lot and sidewalks feature pervious concrete, an environmentally feature that treats and reduces stormwater runoff. Follow the walking trail around the smaller of the two pioneer cabins to reach the trailhead of the West Hylebos Wetlands.
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West Hylebos Forest Health Project
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Location of the West Hylebos Wetlands Forest Health Project
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The Friends' effort to assess and protect the health of the West Hylebos Wetlands forest from the environmental pressures of surrounding suburbia. the Forest Health Project to protect and enhance this unique urban forest.
The Friends conducts forest health surveys, develops and implements management plans for tree planting and invasive weed removal to maintain and enhance this beautiful urban forest.
Read more about the West Hylebos Wetlands Forest Health Project
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Brooklake Blueberry Farm
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Nork Fork Spring Valley
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Site of 2000 stream restoration and revegetation work and 2006 revegetation efforts. More information.
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North Fork Headwaters
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Preservation of the 13-acre North Fork Headwaters Property
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North Fork Spring Valley Open Space
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West Hylebos Stream Stabilization
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In 2005, The city of Federal Way Surface Water Management completed a large woody debris and stream stabilization project that treated 1,200 feet of Hylebos Creek. Engineered log jams were placed at several locations along this severely degrading stream reach. Designed to trap sediment, the log jams are expected to enhance salmon habitat and reduce downstream sand deposition and flooding.
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West Hylebos Illahee Preservation
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Spring Valley Montessori Restoration
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Spring Valley Ranch Kim
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Preservation of the 10-acre Kim Property
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Spring Valley Ranch Acquisition
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the acquisition phase of the Spring Valley Ranch Project
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The Friends helped Washington Department of Transportation identify this critical spawning habitat on the West Branch of Hylebos Creek as a wetland mitigation site. WSDOT purchased the 30 acre property in 2005 and will construct a major stream and wetland restoration, beginning in 2007.
Read more about the Spring Valley Ranch Project
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Spring Valley Ranch Restoration
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Location of the restoration phase of the Spring Valley Ranch project
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The Friends helped identify this critical spawning habitat on the West Branch of Hylebos Creek as a suitable wetland mitigation site for the Washington Department of Transportation. The Friends participated in the design of the $2 million restoration project which began in the summer of 2007.
Read more about the Spring Valley Ranch Project
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Spring Valley Ranch Upland Forest
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Location of the Friends' restoration of the 1.7-acre Spring Valley Ranch Uplands
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As part of the Spring Valley Ranch Restoration, the Friends' planted native trees along the site's eastern boundary, a 1.7-acre uplands.
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Lower Hylebos Marsh
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West Milton Tree Planting