What was Washington State University Cooperative Extension-King County s role in this project?
Well, Cooperative Extension has been a very good partner in terms of working with the farm community on educating them on some things they need to do to make their farm friendly for the community and for the environment, because we all have to deal with the other issues now. Of course in western Washington, a lot of the farmland is where a lot of the major tributaries are, and it s very important to keeping the fish economy going, too. We know that it is very important to maintain as much of the farmland as we can because it is a lot better in the long run for the waterways than developing it intensely. A good example would be the Greenriver Valley where we still have some farms operating and they probably provide enormous water quality and flood protection. People are unaware of this because so much of the valley is paved over and not providing any flood protection and very little water quality. It becomes an important element in the balance for it, but also I think people are beginni
