Forest ecologist Jerry Franklin has made a career of straddling two sometimes very different worldviews — that of the ecologist and the forester. The two professions historically didn’t see eye to eye, but Franklin, in his current role as a UW professor of environmental and forest sciences and previously as a forester with the U.S. Forest Service, has in his 60-year career found a way to integrate ecological and economic values into forestry.
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How decisions affect people’s lives, and how human culture, values, and equity affect conservation outcomes should be considered when defining sustainability goals and approaches to environmental management.
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Environmental Studies senior explores how farmer's markets might make nutritious, local food an option for entire communities.
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Construction started this month on the Washington Park Arboretum‘s new Arboretum Loop Trail, one of the largest improvement projects to date in the Seattle public garden.
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Using compost is the single best thing you can do to protect your family from any danger associated with lead in urban soils. Good compost will also guarantee that you will have plenty of vegetables to harvest. That’s the main finding of a paper appearing this month in the Journal of Environmental Quality. The University of Washington-led study looked at potential risks associated with growing vegetables in urban gardens and determined that the benefits of locally produced vegetables in cities outweigh any risks from gardening in contaminated soils.
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