Water and Land Resources Division topics

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Opportunities to get involved

• Grant Exchange - look through our comprehensive grants site for a program that fits your needs. Includes grantwriting tips and applications.
• Hands-on Volunteer Opportunities: Natural Resources and Parks Calendar of Events
• Recycle native plants with the Native Plant Salvage Program
• Natural Resources Stewardship Network technical assistance and grants
• Wild places for city spaces
  Provides funds to volunteer organizations, community groups, and government agencies for reforestation and habitat restoration projects within the urban growth area of King County.
• Salmon Watcher
  Help us learn more about our local salmon and what they need to thrive.
• WaterWorks grants available

Resources for residents

• Western Washington native plant guide
  Northwest native plant pictures, descriptions, examples of planting plans and tools for making a plant list for buying native plants at your nursery.
• Noxious weeds - identification, reporting, and control
• Boating on King County Rivers: read about safety tips, boaters' signals, and flooding & habitat project locations on King County Rivers.
• Flood warning & flood preparedness
• Household hazardous waste disposal
  Wastemobile schedule and year-round drop points for household hazardous waste in north and south Seattle.
• Cedar River public boating and fishing access
  Find parks, ecological natural areas and boat ramps to access the river for swimming, fishing and boating. Includes lands managed by the City of Renton, King County and City of Seattle.
• Natural resource lands
  Look up individual properties protected by King County as open space for their ecological and working resource values. The natural lands site also provides pictures, location maps and rules for public use.
• Maps
• Household hazardous waste
  Tips and alternatives to relying on strong chemicals around the house.
• Neighborhood drainage assistance program
• Puget Sound shoreline stewardship guidebook
  Provides info and contacts for residents of beach and bluff shorelines to learn about natural shoreline protection, manage runoff, use native plants, control aggressive non-native plants, and maintain septic systems in an ecologically friendly way.
• Greening your Shoreline
  A tool for lakeshore property owners on Lake Washington and Lake Sammamish to improve shorelines for people and salmon.
• Puget Sound Fresh
  Offers a database of local farms, farmers markets, u-pick farms, and community supported agriculture farms, and info such as local harvest seasons for various produce, farm events and other information.
• Reusable building materials exchange
  Sign up or browse through DNR's Reusable Building Materials Exchange, a free, on-line service for reusable or scrap building materials.
• Stormwater services and information
• Swimming beach bacteria monitoring
• Report water quality and drainage problems
• Resource protection incentives
  Public benefit rating system and timber land programs.
  

Resources for businesses

• Document ordering - Water and Land Resources
• Environmental Laboratory
• Green Globe Award
• Hazardous waste programs
• Industrial materials exchange (IMEX)
  A free service to match businesses that produce wastes, industrial by-products, or surplus materials with businesses that need them.
• The integrated pond
  A publication to help homeowners, developers, and architects create attractive community space from stormwater management ponds.
• Maps and data
• Reusable building materials exchange
  Sign up or browse through DNRP's Reusable Building Materials Exchange, a free, on-line service for reusable or scrap building materials.
• Stormwater pollution prevention manual
  This manual provides guidance for businesses, public facilities, and other non-residential entities in unincorporated King County on actions we're all required to take to reduce contamination of stormwater, surface water, and groundwater.
• Surface water design manual
• Transfer of development rights
  A voluntary program enabling landowners to buy and sell residential development rights on private property to preserve public benefits in our rapidly growing region-- for example farms, forestlands, open space, regional trails and designated urban separator lands and habitat for threatened or endangered species. Owners benefit financially through the transfer of development rights to better locations while the public benefits through permanent preservation of critical lands.