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710 KIRO: "Gardening with Ciscoe" LIVE ooh-la-la! 9:00a.m. - Noon Main Stage.

Pierce County Public Works & Utilities: Environmental Services: Find information on all services that benefit Pierce County including sewers, storm water management, environmental education and solid waste planning. Environmental Services provides wastewater management, flood control, water quality, water supply, environmental education, solid waste planning, recycling, and Chambers Creek Master Plan Services.

Pierce County Public Works & Utilities: Transportation Services: Find information for all divisions of Public Works & Utilities: Road Operations (Maintenance), Engineering, Program Development, Traffic (signs & signals, Adopt-A-Road & CTR program.

1000 Friends of Washington: 1000 Friends of Washington ensures that communities are developed to include a clean environment, a place for individuals to work and play and a community that includes people of all incomes.

American Farmland Trust: Saving the land that sustains us by working with communities and individuals to protect the best land, plan for growth with agriculture in mind and keep the land healthy.

Pierce County Responds: The new Pierce County Responds Program: Stop Illegal Dumping & nuisance vehicle program. Keep the Environment clean - How to Recycle.

PALS - Pierce County Planning & Land Services: Protect critical wetlands areas located within Pierce County.

Pierce County Advanced Planning: Come and learn what's involved in developing a growth plan for communities including the Parkland-Spanway-Midland Communities Plan. Addresses transportation, land use, design standard & environmental protection.

Master Builders Association of Pierce County: Display of the Built Green(tm) Program which promotes sustainable residential construction.

WA Department of Natural Resources: Meet Smokey Bear and learn Firewise home tips. Visit the Survivable Home and play the fire triangle beanbag toss.

City of Tacoma Environmental Services-Tacoma's Resource Conservation Stewards: Tacoma's Resource Conservation Stewards provide advice about resource conservation.

City of Tacoma - Environmental Services: How to support the 5R's: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Responsible and Respect - Provides surface water, wastewater and solid waste management services as well as environmental education and community outreach.

City of Tacoma / Environmental Services / TAGRO: See display of two new biosolid products that are fish friendly, nutrient rich soil amendments which enhance high quality sustainable soils that promote long term high quality vegetation growth.

Tacoma Power/Tacoma Water: New home construction - building in conservation.

Cascade Harvest Coalition: Support and learn about Sustainable Food and Farm Systems.

Cascades Conservation Partnership: Come learn about what's being done to protect wildlife corridors, habitat and clean water in Washington's central cascades.

Citizens for a Healthy Bay: How can YOU help to clean and restore Commencement Bay?

Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department: Learn more about regulations that protect environmental quality.

Boise Office Solutions: Free Samples of Recycled Office Supplies.

Pierce County Public Works: Discover a range of features at the Chambers Creek Properties Master Site Plan.

Wildlife Encounters, Inc.: Come see wildlife that you can find in your own backyard!

WA Department of Fish & Wildlife: Play a wacky wildlife webgame and learn about backyard wildlife sanctuary programs at the same time!

Trout Unlimited Chapter #146: Conserve, protect and restore cold water fisheries, their watersheds, and ecosystems as a means of maintaining our quality of life.

WSU Extension Center: Information about the Master Gardner, 4-H, Clothing, Textile and other WSU programs

Puget Creek Restoration Society: Protecting our salmon by working with a large diversified community of volunteers in hands-on restoration, education & research in an urban stream habitat area.

Washington State Department of Transportation: See the Livable Transportation System. Learn about the depts. extensive planning, close attention environmental concerns, and better managing system in place.

Puget Sound Action Team: The goal of the Puget Sound Action Team is to restore and protect the biological health and diversity of Puget Sound by protecting and enhancing Puget Sound's water and sediment quality; its fish and shellfish; and its wetlands and other habitats.

Mount Rainier National Park: Find out about recreational, educational, and volunteer opportunities, air quality, and more. And how protecting the natural cultural, and recreational resources as well as the scenic views of Mount Rainier.

South Sound Cohousing: Creating a Village Community in Tacoma. Developing affordable, energy efficient, well-designed homes centered around shared common areas. Work in collaboration a developer, architect, and other professionals.

Tacoma Nature Center: Pick up information for events, classes & trail maps to explore this 54-acre wetland habitat and try to spot red fox, raccoon, blue heron or other wildlife or identify many native plants. Discover science secrets in the Center's exhibit area and laboratory or learn about all the things you and your family can do at this unique nature preserve.

Tahoma Audubon: Our mission is to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife and their habitats for the benefit of humanity and the earth's biological diversity.

Puget Creek Restoration Society: Works with a large diversified community of volunters doing hand-on restoration, education & research in an urban stream habitat area.

Friends of Pierce County: Sustainable buildings and low impact development. Educate the public on land use issues and advocate for smart growth and responsible development.

Spanaway Community Action Network: Working on issues with local service providers, government officials and government agencies to maker our community safer and more livable.

Sierra Club - Tatoosh Group: Education on sprawl prevention, the removal of invasive plant species in Tacoma Metro Parks and preservation of Carbon River Valley forestlands and reparian habitat and foothills trail development.

People For Puget Sound: What citizen's can do to protect and restore Puget Sound. Learn about programs, hands on restoration projects to restore habitat, and education for school age kids about environmental stewardship.

Nisqually Reach Nature Center: Education about water quality and how it affect us all…visit the Live Marine Animals Touch Tank.

LRI: Learn about organic compost and naturally enhance your lawn and garden growth while promoting clean streams with the use of PREP compost.

YMCA Camp Seymour: Teaching over 6500 children environmental education by reducing water (Living Machine hydroponic system) and food waste (vermiculture) on site.

Puyallup Valley Preservation Group: Preserving rural life style in the Puyallup Valley

Cascade Land Conservancy: Open space is a critical part of every livable community

Urban Habitat Ecology Tacoma: Urban Habitat Ecology Tacoma Keeperowls is a grassroots non-profit collective of neighbors, students, and science teachers removing invasive plants and planting natives in their local natural area with on-site supervision. The Keeperowls engage the local citizenry to establish a network of neighborhood habitat keepers who contribute to the local economy, investigate public policies, and are guided by a consortium of experts in the natural sciences.



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