Duwamish River Floating Wetlands - Mason Bowles & Nancy Rottle

Mid Coast and West Coast unite! 2,000 miles from Chicago there is another organization working on revitalizing a river using floating wetlands! The University of Washington Green Futures Lab is doing amazing work in the Duwamish River, up in Seattle. In this episode, Phil chats with Nancy Rottle and Mason Bowles about how migrating salmon benefit from these urban ecosystem projects, the differences between creating floating wetlands in the Seattle region compared to Chicago, how our work on the Wild Mile relates to theirs, and so much more. Nancy is a professor at the University of Washington, a landscape architect, and the Director of the University of Washington’s Green Futures Lab. Mason Bowles is a Professional Wetland Scientist, and has been working as a restoration ecologist, in Seattle, with the King County government for over 30 years. If you want to learn more about the Duwamish Floating Wetlands project and their developing Sweetgrass Shoreline Restoration project visit UW’s Green Futures lab’s Living Shorelines Puget Sound website at http://livingshorelines.be.uw.edu/