County wins award for Little Bear Creek wetland restoration
EVERETT— Snohomish County Public Works received an award on Monday for restoration work along Little Bear Creek.
The Puget Sound Regional Council, a long-term planning group working with cities, tribes and other agencies within Snohomish, King, Kitsap and Pierce counties, recognized the county’s environmental stewardship with a Vision 2050 award, celebrating innovative solutions for comprehensive planning.
The county designated the 17-acre site near Woodinville as an advanced mitigation effort, serving as a bank of preserved ecological function to counteract the impacted habitat area adjacent to future Public Works’ transportation projects.
“This project fosters safe, sustainable development and responsible resource management,” Public Works Director Kellie Snyder said on Monday. “We want to figure out how we can do more of these [projects], because what we have to do in the future, particularly in the urban area, is really going to need to be offset by these projects.”
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