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Parks opened, replanted, or redesigned with the neighbors who use them. 27 verified stories. Stories come from Surrey, Milwaukee, and Denver. Each one is checked and linked to the original report.
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CommunityThe fifth annual planting at the Surrey park added native trees and shrubs along Highway 1, part of a month of volunteer plantings across Metro Vancouver parks.
Verified · CBC
CommunityWisconsin DNR opened a third-of-a-mile trail at Havenwoods State Forest with braille signs, audio guides, and loaner white canes, built mostly by staff with a $15,000 grant.
Verified · WISN 12
CommunityMore than 6,000 people joined the Susan G. Komen More Than Pink Walk on a sunny Saturday, including a 29-year survivor who has walked since 1997.
Verified · FOX31 KDVR
CommunityCare Earth Trust trained women and young people in birds, wetlands, and guiding. Eight of them now lead walks at the sanctuary as Golden Wings.
Verified · The Hindu
CommunityAbout 4,500 people came to a Jazz and Justice Festival for the 12-acre park in Columbia Heights, which opened in 1936.
Verified · The Washington Post
CommunityThe 1.3-mile Goose Island Connector Trail opened with a ribbon cutting. Most of the $365,000 cost came from a state transportation grant.
Verified · WIZM
CommunityThe second phase, paid for by a local sales tax, adds nine ballfields, including an adaptive field, plus two playgrounds and a concession building.
Verified · The Wichita Eagle
CommunityWin and Elaine Dermody cleaned a half-mile of Steamboat's Core Trail for eight years. The Veterans Center of Northwest Colorado is taking that section.
Verified · Steamboat Radio
CommunityResidents helped design the $2.23 million park, which includes inclusive play, a rain garden, and a place for vendors.
Verified · WWMT
AnimalsIn the 10 months since the Greenland crossing opened near Castle Rock, drivers hit two animals on a stretch that used to see about one collision a day.
Verified · The Colorado Sun
CommunityThe Ozark Discovery Canopy on the Bentonville campus is open dawn to dusk, with a flowing creek, a spinning boulder, oversized hanging benches, and a family-sized slide.
Verified · Axios Northwest Arkansas
AnimalsA 10-year-old Jack Russell who slipped out of a Canyon Village cabin on Sept. 10 was waiting in a doghouse inside a humane trap. She had lost about 10 pounds and was reunited with her family.
Verified · Cowboy State Daily
ScienceThe DNR says partners, from private landowners to people planting on their own, helped reach the milestone. New trees also went in at Havenwoods, the state's only urban state forest, in Milwaukee.
Verified · WPR (Wisconsin Public Radio)
CommunityKingsford Middle School set out to raise $500 for the Lake Antoine playground and finished with more than $8,000. With other gifts, the campaign passed its $40,000 goal.
Verified · WLUC TV6
CommunityThe Fond du Lac Band, Duluth, the Minnesota DNR, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service held a low-intensity burn on 17 acres, the first there in 180 years.
Verified · MPR News
CommunityMilo, wiliwili, a Moreton Bay fig, and other trees went in at Halewikio Place, the first step toward Ke Ola O ʻAiea ʻOhana Park, with a $34,000 urban-forestry grant.
Verified · Hawaii News Now
CommunitySalt Lake City Public Lands, University of Utah volunteers, and a corrections greenhouse program are replanting the Bonneville Fire foothills to hold the slopes.
Verified · KSL
CommunityMakenna Sandoval and Lilly Prindle of Troop 16336 earned the Silver Award with a native-plant garden at Prince Gallitzin State Park. Each girl put in more than 50 hours.
Verified · Altoona Mirror
CommunityFifty-three people walked 2.5 kilometers through the Chendamangalam wetlands and Kunnampara Biodiversity Park and noted a lesser coucal among the birds.
Verified · The Hindu
CommunityNew York finished a $70,000 wildlife viewing platform in Wayne County, reached by a 750-foot stone-dust path and a ramp, in time for fall migration.
Verified · NYS DEC
ScienceThe small temple beside the Kapersburg fort was only inches underground. An inscription suggests it was dedicated to Mars, and a figurine is likely Victoria.
Verified · Smithsonian Magazine
ScienceA new atoll-wide estimate from the Seychelles Islands Foundation and the University of Exeter is the largest on record, and it mostly corrects older surveys that missed animals in the shade.
Verified · University of Exeter
ScienceInsulated blankets held spring snow piles at Snowmass and Buttermilk. The resort says that saved snow would have taken about 3.5 million gallons of water to make.
Verified · The Colorado Sun
CommunityThe STAR Project is adding and realigning hiking, biking, and horse trails on the Deschutes National Forest, starting with hand work on the Brush Creek Trail.
Verified · Central Oregon Daily