Reclamation Point

Location:
Peninsula at the north end lying between freeway ramps.

Description:
Interpretive node at or near canoe landing, stretching toward new Duck Bay trail; native shrubs and open space; parking lot planting.

Interpretive messages:
Wetland shrub communities
Union Bay story (extensive human modification)
Human impacts on lake ecology (e.g., lakeside lawn fertilization)
Wildlife/pet impacts (e.g., feral/alien species, domestic dogs/cats)
Botany by canoe
Wildflowers

Representative genera:
Salix/willow, Spiraea/spiraea; wildflowers; new tough shrub cultivars; marshland plants.

Potential partners:
Metro; Washington DNR; MOHAI; Society for Ecological Restoration; Audubon; Waterfront Activities Center; Washington State Nursery and Landscape Association

Landscape for wildlife

Location:
On Foster Island, northeast of proposed Foster's Camp Environmental Education Center, south of SR 520

Description:
Naturalistic landscape managed to promote the presence of wildlife, especially birds.

Interpretive messages:
Native fauna
Attracting wildlife

Representative genera:
Natives and compatible non-natives

Potential partners:
Seattle Audubon; Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife; University of Washington Department of Zoology; Woodland Park Zoo

Plant ancestry and diversity

Location:
Yew and Honeysuckle Hills.

Description: Interpretive node at lookout on Yew Hill; simplified plant palette employed on slope and vale between hills to support interpretive messages.

Interpretive messages:
Olmsted taxonomic legacy
Plant evolution

Representative genera:
Several possible generic foci involving a simple cluster of primitive and advanced taxa (e.g., Ginkgo/maidenhair tree and Lonicera/honeysuckle) to tell the story of the Arboretum's first master plan. A complete plant families garden employing herbaceous plants and the Cronquist system is more appropriate for development at CUH's Union Bay Gardens.

Potential partners:
University of Washington Department of Botany, Washington Native Plant Society, Friends of Seattle's Olmsted Parks.

Restoration Ridge

Location: Interpretive node in the heart of the World Forest at the proposed Ridgetop Meadow and Retreat.

Description:
Interpretive messages incorporated into shelter design; clustered planting of important conservation taxa; genetic conservation display of a native tree species possessing high morphological, genetic and phenological variation across its range--such as timing of bud break, pollen release (e.g., Douglas-fir, ponderosa pine); forest fungi display.

Interpretive messages:
Global and regional plant endangerment Role of arboreta in plant conservation and forest habitat
Restoration ecology
Forest fungi
Forest genetics