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Trees for Salmon

Purchase a living Christmas Tree from Swansons this Holiday season and help restore Carkeek Park's Salmon Habitat

Since 1999, Swansons has teamed up with the Carkeek Park Environmental Education Center every Holiday Season to help the ongoing effort to bring healthy salmon habitat back to Pipers Creek, our neighborhood watershed. Conifer trees and other native vegetation help salmon streams by reducing surface water runoff, lowering water temperature, and providing food and habitat for other beneficial critters.

Your purchase of a “Sammy" homemade paper medallion ($5) buys one native tree or shrub to be planted in Carkeek Park.

When you shop for a living Christmas tree this year, you can contribute in any of three ways:

1. Purchase any living Christmas tree, and Swansons will donate a native plant to be planted by volunteers in the Pipers Creek watershed. Located in Carkeek Park, this helps restore the creek's salmon habitat according to the park's forest management plan.

2. Choose one of the Puget Sound native species we carry (marked with a “Donate This Tree" medallion above) for your living Christmas tree *. After the holidays, you can return your native tree to Swansons, and it will be added to the restoration effort.
*Please pick up a “Living Christmas Tree Care" handout at Swansons to ensure a healthy tree to replant.

3. Purchase a $5.00 “Sammy" medallion at the cashier (to hang on your Christmas tree), or give as a gift and Swansons will add a native plant to the restoration effort.

Each year, our Trees for Salmon campaign has been a great success, contributing over 100 trees and shrubs annually to the park. Donate a plant and/or consider signing up for our planting party for the 3rd Saturday in January and make a difference in the neighborhood!

Check out our living "Trees for Salmon" here!

Join us for a Presentation: Sat. December 12, 11:30 am
"Carkeek Park & The Greening of Seattle"
Learn about the rich history of our neighborhood gem, Carkeek Park. The park's staff have been working for many years to restore the old forest and the local salmon runs - through local volunteers and Swansons Trees for Salmon program. Join Brian Gay from Seattle Parks and Recreation to see how we can all make Seattle and Carkeek Park successful and greener.

Trees for Salmon Planting Party - January 16, 2010
Info and signup at Carkeek Park, or call (206) 684.0877

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