My daughter, Lexie, was the youth Water Tender Board Member while in high school. She wrote a white paper on Bear Creek nimbyism and organized Key Club restoration work parties. In 2023, she was promoted to Lead Environmental Scientist / Planner for a regional engineering company in Spokane. Lexie's LinkedIn information.
Article form Terry Lavender, Founder of Water Tenders:
"Water Tenders is a group of people who care about the wetlands and streams in the Bear Creek area and King County..." (Water Tender Gary Smith works closely with Terry on Bear Creek land acquisitions.)
I have been a Water Tenders member for all of its 25 years. Reflection is good and I feel pride and more than a little awe in what Water Tenders has accomplished. Some of the actions were the starting point for landscape-wide changes. The simple act of consistently collecting and reporting rain water led to the realization that one size does not fit all—Bear Creek gets almost double the rainfall of SeaTac and development standards must change. Careful observation and reporting led to improvements countywide in temporary erosion and sedimentation measures. We showed that people will work with their neighbors and enroll in tax incentives to protect natural habitat on their property and have been a positive voice for Bear Creek in the City of Redmond. We have recorded baselines for species from amphibians to freshwater mussels and the biology of Paradise Valley Conservation Area with good, citizen-collected data. We originated salmon docent programs that are now active all over King County and the list goes on.
Terry Lavender, Founder, can be reached at tlavender2@frontier.com
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