Overview
Crews planted nearly 86,000 native trees and shrubs along five miles of SR 18 between Covington Way and Maple Valley. The extensive planting restores the roadside affected by recent SR 18 widening projects.
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The native woody vegetation restores the rural roadside character, provides permanent erosion control, creates wildlife habitat and provides a vegetated buffer between the highway and adjacent properties.
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Partnerships & Cooperation
We competitively selected Terra Dynamics to complete this project.
Work began in summer 2005, with planting occurring between January 2006 and summer 2006.
We will closely monitor and tend to the new trees and plants for three years to ensure that they are established.
At WSDOT we seek to address the concerns of the tribal nations using the process outlined in Section 106 of The National Historic Preservation Act and the WSDOT Tribal Consultation Policy adopted in 2003 by the Transportation Commission as part of the WSDOT Centennial Accord Plan.
Tribal consultation was conducted for the entire project corridor during the highway construction phase. No additional consultation was necessary as a result of that earlier effort.
Funding
This project was funded through the following fund sources:
- 2003 Gas Tax (Nickel Funding) - $4.3 million
- Total funding from all sources - $4.3 million
Contact Us
Greg Phipps, WSDOT Communications
15700 Dayton Avenue North
PO Box 330310, MS: 103
Seattle, WA 98133
Phone: 206.440.4702
E-mail: phippsg@wsdot.wa.g
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