Sustainable Transportation: Preserving, restoring and revegetating habitats

By Meagan Lott

As facet of a sustainable transportation gadget we now not in basic terms attempt to aid the economy, boost fairness and best of life in our communities, but maintain the environment.



Across the state we're integrating habitat preservation into roadside pattern and operations as nicely as adding different habitat good points into challenge revegetation and restore plans.
We’re replanting native vegetation in the I-90 Snoqualmie Pass East project area to restore habitat impacted by the project.

One instance is the work accomplished previous this fall on the Scatter Creek Rest Area off of Interstate 5 north of Centralia. A sort of seed mixes have been planted using a seed drill for the relaxation enviornment and a sort of soil practise ways with hand seeding at local study plots. This web web website online may be monitored for a success establishment and flowering of crops and pollinator activity. As a result, soil practise and seed blend performance will tell restore and repairs practices to offer destiny habitat for pollinators alongside our roadsides.



Another instance is the work to offer improvements to Edgecomb Creek beneath State Route 531 close to Arlington. As facet of the newest fish passage project, vegetation was put in to offer financial institution stabilization, excessive circulate roughness mitigation and shading and habitat for juvenile salmonid.
Vegetation installed at Edgecomb Creek near Arlington provide slope stabilization and shading and habitat for wildlife.

On I-90 simply east of Snoqualmie Pass, we teamed up with the US Forest Service to gather native seeds and cuttings from the Snoqualmie Pass East undertaking side to develop at native nurseries. Once the crops matured, we planted them alongside the undertaking side to repair the habitat we impacted throughout the primary stages of the project.
We’ve teamed with the US Forest Service to collect native seeds and cuttings from the Snoqualmie East project to grow at nurseries and re-plant in the area.

Through those creative ways to hold and repair local habitats we're offering a extra reliable, guilty and sustainable transportation gadget now and into the future.

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