As part of the Tacoma Open Space Program, we are again holding monthly work parties at qʷiqʷəlut — the salt marsh that we steward in the Tacoma tideflats — but with additional safeguards due to the COVID pandemic.

Work parties are smaller, participants are required to RSVP in advance, and participants must agree to follow all COVID-19 guidelines as explained at the beginning of each work party.

RSVP HERE (for this and future work parties): https://www.earthcorps.org/volun.../event/a0E1E00000QTTRqUAP

For 4+ years now (since January 2018), 350 Tacoma (with the support of EarthCorps and City of Tacoma Environmental Services) have been working to restore a tiny neglected salt marsh deep in the industrial Port of Tacoma, nestled between an oil terminal and a container shipping yard. We'd love your help!

Our goal is to love this little two acre open space back to health. The salt marsh was initially named for a French chemical company — Rhone Poulenc — that once operated on this site, but in consultation with the Puyallup Tribal Language Program we have officially restored a native Twulshootseed place name: qʷiqʷəlut (“little marsh”).

Come join us!