Starflower Foundation operations came to an end in December 2007. Over its 10-year history, the foundation worked on 18 urban habitat restoration projects in Seattle, including West Seattle's Roxhill Bog and Greg Davis Park. [The following information is edited from the pages of the Starflower Foundation website and the Washington Native Plant Society website.]
Starflower Foundation was founded in 1996 by Ann Lennartz. Its mission was to assist with the creation, rehabilitation and stewardship of Pacific Northwest native plant communities. A core of committed volunteers was at the center of each project, and their vision was to restore an area of their neighborhood park or school grounds with Pacific Northwest native plant communities. As an operating foundation, Starflower supported design, implementation, and maintenance for these projects.
As Ann envisioned it, each Starflower Foundation project included a significant educational component. Activities were created to actively involve community members, students, teachers, and project stewards in the long-term stewardship of the sites. Valuable feedback from the broad stewardship community shaped these activities and demonstrated their value.
As part of the foundation's legacy, they have made their lessons and education materials available through the Washington Native Plant Society website at www.wnps.org.
In their projects, Starflower worked under the premise that a site densely vegetated with a high diversity of native plants would be resistant to invasion by non-native species.
Starflower Restoration Project Stewardship Reports
Project Stewardship Reports provide background information and baseline data to inform ongoing stewardship of the project natural areas. Each tells the story of the work undertaken to restore the project area, including community organization, construction, planting, and maintenance. Each report also presents the findings of a comprehensive plant survey of the project natural areas conducted in 2007.
Reports for Greg Davis and Roxhill Bog www.wnps.org/restoration/index.html