Cheers for Volunteers: Realtors Help Restore Area on Everest Creek

Close to 40 realtors joined two Earth Corps crew leaders and Kirkland Public Works Department staff Friday in planting native vegetation along the creek that flows through .

The annual volunteer work party was mounted by The Realtors Environmental Council (TREC), part of the Seattle King County Realtors, a trade association representing more than 5,000 brokers.

TREC was established by the council in 2007 as a nonprofit affiliate to promote environmental stewardship and to support projects and policies that preserve a healthy, natural habitat.

The volunteers helped pull invasive non-native vegetation along Everest Creek in an area targeted for restoration, then helped replant native vegetation. The idea is to create a natural green space that will support native species in the wetlands and forests of the 21-acre park, which is better known for its baseball diamonds and sports facilities.

The work party marked the fifth year of TREC’s planting effort, launched in 2007 at Hylebos watershed in Federal Way. The realtors have also worked at Kelsey Creek and the Mercer Slough Environmental Education Center in Bellevue, and last year at Seattle’s Seward Park.

Volunteerism is one of the cornerstone’s of Patch’s community involvement approach, so we’d like to take our hats off to the Seattle King County Realtors and TREC and say, “Cheers for volunteers!”

Please take a look at some of their great work in the photo gallery here.