volunteers have been granted special access to this restricted site for plant salvaging on numerous occasions.

Nearly 500 unique volunteers are making use of native plants from this site for restoration projects occurring throughout King and Pierce Counties, and elsewhere too. Home owning event participants are also experiencing the

numerous benefits related to the use of native plants - benefits that reach well beyond the boundaries of their properties, but which create community for people and wildlife alike.

ADDED THANKS... While running errands this summer, I noticed a "For Sale" sign on a sturdy covered quonset structure at the ArtCo Crafts Store on 6th Ave in Tacoma... For $50.00, I was not only able to purchase this prize,

already dismantled and loaded into my vehicle with all of its parts intact, but a second quonset frame too, because it was otherwise headed for the trash bin!! Thanks to Trina Davis at Artco Crafts for making this sale possible!

With the aid of last season's Washington Conservation Corps staffs from the City of Tacoma and from Metro Parks Tacoma, I was also able to have both of these quonsets reconstructed at the Meadow Park maintenance facility where I store NPSA supplies. More thanks are due to these folks for their awesome team-work! We now have a shade structure for plants that require outdoor shade while being held, and a covered structure where plant propagation can occur for work parties supplying their own pots and soil! Thank you, ThankYou, Thank You!