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	Seattle, Washington article - Seattle, Washington Kerry Park Space Needle Downtown Seattle Mount Rainier Howard - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Seattle is the largest city in the U.S. state of Washington, and in the Pacific Northwest, with a total estimated population of 569,101 as of 2003.
		It is situated between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, about 108 miles (180 km) south of the Canadian border, in King County, of which it is the county seat.
		Washington State Ferries, the largest ferry system in the United States and the third largest in the world, operates a passenger-only ferry from Colman Dock in Downtown to Vashon Island, car ferries from Colman Dock to Bainbridge Island and to Bremerton, and a car ferry from West Seattle to Vashon Island to Southworth.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Seattle,_Washington (3953 words)

	Washington Park Arboretum ~ General Information
		The Washington Park Arboretum was designed by James Dawson of the Olmsted Brothers firm, and was developed in the 1930's with WPA funds and labor.
		Admission to the Washington Park Arboretum is free.
		Director of the Center for Urban Horticulture/Washington Park Arboretum - Dr. David J Mabberley, Ph.D. Dean of the College of Forest Resources - B.
	depts.washington.edu /wpa/general.htm (592 words)

	Chicago Park District: Chicagoâs First Arboretum
		The park district spent $15,000 for mulching and planting an additional 60 trees that were donated by nurseries, $4,000 for signage and $8,000 on creating an arboretum brochure with a map of the trees.
		The Washington Park Arboretum is the first of three arboretums on the horizon in the city.
		Brochures for the Washington Park Arboretum are available at all park district field houses and schools in the Bronzeville community where Washington Park is located.
	www.chicagoparkdistrict.com /index.cfm/fuseaction/news.detail/object_id/a2dd43ea-0f5f-4f09-b849-cdf478078d21.cfm (691 words)

	Washington Park Arboretum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Washington Park is a public park in Seattle, Washington, USA, most of which is taken up by the Washington Park Arboretum.
		Lake Washington Boulevard E. runs north and south through the park, parallel to the creek.
		Washington Park Arboretum: Center for Urban Horticulture, College of Forest Resources, University of Washington
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Washington_Park_Arboretum (297 words)

	Seattle Press on Line - Controversial New Plan for Arboretum Moves Forward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The private, nonprofit Arboretum Foundation conducts fundraising and volunteer support for the Arboretum, and three of its members sit on the ABGC board along with three representatives from the University, the City, and one gubernatorial appointee.
		Washington Park Arboretum is a 230-acre city park south of SR 520, sandwiched between the Montlake, Broadmoor and Madison Valley neighborhoods.
		The park and arboretum were designed by the Olmsted Brothers of Brookline, Massachusetts, a firm founded by the father of modern landscape architecture Frederick Law Olmsted.
	www.seattlepress.com /article-1826.html (1145 words)

	Washington State Symbols, Arboretum - SHG Resources
		The Arboretum, then known as the University of Washington Arboretum, began officially in 1934 when an agreement was signed by the University of Washington and the City of Seattle, allowing the University to develop and manage an arboretum and botanical garden in Washington Park.
		The Washington Park Arboretum was established in 1934 by an agreement approved by both the University of Washington (Board of Regents) and the City of Seattle (City Council/Mayor).
		The Washington park arboretum, the oldest center for botanical and gardening learning in the Pacific Northwest, is recognized as one of the two foremost collections of woody plants in the United States of America and enjoys an excellent international reputation.
	www.shgresources.com /wa/symbols/arboretum (1014 words)

	Broadmoor, Seattle, Washington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It is bounded on the west by the Washington Park Arboretum, on the south by E. Madison Street, beyond which is the Washington Park neighborhood, on the east by 37th Avenue E., beyond which is the Madison Park neighborhood, and on the north by Union Bay marshland.
		The neighborhood has a reputation of being wealthy and exclusive, as evidenced by the gates and the fact that Jews were not allowed to live there as recently as the 1970s.
		The western 230 acres (930,000 m²) were given to the city, who developed Washington Park on the site; the eastern 200 acres (800,000 m²) were developed as Broadmoor by a group of businessmen that included E. Ames, general manager of Puget Mill.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Broadmoor,_Seattle,_Washington (225 words)

	Seattle Press on Line - Understanding the Battle for the Soul of Washington Park Arboretum
		Of the thousands of people who visit Washington Park each year, few are aware of the dissatisfaction of arboretum advocates with the status quo.
		Directors of arboreta from the Bronx Botanical Garden to the Yakima Arboretum have taken pains to publicly state that an arboretum is not a park.
		The tension between park user and arboretum advocate rests in the fact that in this dual-purpose facility, both arboretum and park, the management rests in the hands of the minority constituency.
	www.seattlepress.com /article-1849.html (932 words)

	Seattle Parks & Recreation - Arboretum Master Plan
		The first plan for the Washington Park Arboretum was developed in 1936 by James Dawson of the renowned Olmsted Brothers landscape architecture firm.
		The Washington Park Arboretum is a 230-acre unique "special purpose park" that is both an urban refuge and a place where trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants are cultivated for conservation, scientific and educational purposes.
		The Washington Park Arboretum is owned and operated cooperatively by the City of Seattle and the University of Washington, with the support of the Arboretum Foundation.
	www.cityofseattle.net /parks/arboretum/arboPlanindex.htm (581 words)

	Washington Park - Chicago (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A two-story parking garage in the southeast corner of the park is being considered to ease thpark's summer pasrking shortage, park district officials said.
		Hairston took to task the park district and festival promoters who attended the meeting before adding that she was powerless to force festival promoters to move th events further into the park since the area in question is not in her waard.
		Washington Park Advisory Council President Cecilia Butler continued her long-standing push for a more permanent structiure, like a band shell, to be built in the Seven Hils area of the park south of the DuSasble Museum of African American History.
	www.hydepark.org /parks/washington.htm (10002 words)

	Is the Arboretum a museum piece or a wild place? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The plan is proposed by the Arboretum's caretakers: the University of Washington, the non-profit Arboretum Foundation and the city's Parks Department.
		Under the Arboretum's complicated power-sharing arrangement, the plan must be approved by the city and by the UW Board of Regents.
		Gibson and a group of nearby residents known as the Arboretum Park Preservation Coalition are vigilant of anything that alters that balance.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/arb24.shtml (1263 words)

	Washington Park Arboretum
		The Washington Park Arboretum (WPA) is a living plant museum emphasizing trees and shrubs, hardy in the Maritime Pacific Northwest.
		The Arboretum serves the public, students at all levels, naturalists, gardeners, and nursery and landscape professionals with its collections, educational programs, interpretation, and recreational opportunities.
		WPA is located south of the UW campus and ship canal, containing wetlands of Union Bay, the valley bottom along Arboretum Creek, and associated forested ridges.
	www.washington.edu /research/field/arboretum.html (656 words)

	Washington Park Arboretum ~ Center for Urban Horticulture ~ UW
		The Washington Park Arboretum is a spectacular urban green space on the shores of Lake Washington just east of downtown Seattle and south of the University of Washington.
		The University of Washington, in association with the Center for Urban Horticulture, manages the Arboretum and its plant collections.
		The City of Seattle's Department of Parks and Recreation holds title to the land and cooperates in its management.
	depts.washington.edu /wpa (113 words)

	The Washington Park Arboretum
		It has been called a "200-acre art museum," and a "symphony of plants." The Washington Park Arboretum (WPA) in Seattle, officially established in 1934, is dedicated to growing, studying, conserving, and displaying some 40,000 specimens of trees, shrubs, vines, and other plants.
		Management of the Arboretum is coordinated between the UW and the City of Seattle.
		The UW Regents put the arboretum on more official footing in 1899, incorporating it as part of a plan for the development of the site, and for the occasion the Seattle Parks Department donated over 2,000 trees to the effort.
	www.washington.edu /research/showcase/1934b.html (1034 words)

	Trees: Nature's Art
		This is another of the trees in the Washington Park Arboretum in Seattle, WA that we frequently photograph.
		The Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park near Crescent City, CA., is one of the few remaining old growth stands of redwoods left in the country.
		During the fall season, the Japanese maple trees in the Washington Park Arboretum literally explode with the color red.
	www.phototripusa.com /e_gallery_0501.html (1225 words)

	BG-Map - More Installations
		The Washington Park Arboretum was founded in 1934 and is operated jointly by the University of Washington and the City of Seattle.
		The North Carolina Arboretum is a brand new public garden situated on 424 acres (170 hectates) in the Appalachian mountains of western North Carolina.
		Because of the mountainous terrain, the Arboretum requested that the Total Station Interface be modified to permit the measurement and recording of Z coordinates (elevations) as well as X and Y coordinates.
	www.bg-map.com /instmore.html (851 words)

	Seattle Parks & Recreation - Arboretum Master Plan - EIS
		As with all figures in the master plan, the design is conceptual and may not reflect the final configuration when the projects are designed.
		Figure 12 depicts areas within the park from which structures, roads, and buildings would be visible under the proposed master plan.
		The figure published in the final EIS showed an additional parking area near the playfield at the south end of the park that was under consideration at the time the drawing was originally developed but was subsequently eliminated from the final proposed plan.
	www.cityofseattle.net /parks/arboretum/eisacrobat.htm (178 words)

	Saving the Arboretum (November 4, 1998)
		The Arboretum Plan: A Greenprint for the Future proposes to create a "world-class arboretum" within Washington Park, a maneuver intended to reduce free public access and increase paid access.
		This input is dutifully recorded in an appendix to the Arboretum Plan that appears on pages 105-128, but the plan itself does not incorporate the wishes of the public.
		The Arboretum and Botanical Garden Committee pushed the Arboretum Plan by suggesting the current master plan, created by Jones and Jones in 1978, had been executed or was otherwise obsolete.
	eatthestate.org /03-09/SavingArboretum.htm (813 words)

	Washington Park Arboretum - Sports & Recreation - Seattle, WA, 98112-2300 - Citysearch
		This crown jewel of a park, with an expansive botanical collection, resides i...
		This crown jewel of a park, with an expansive botanical collection, resides in the heart of the city.
		The Washington Park Arboretum is co-maintained by the city of Seattle and the University of Washington.
	seattle.citysearch.com /profile/10790222 (348 words)

	uwnews.org \| University of Washington News and Information
		The botanic gardens include the Washington Park Arboretum, Center for Urban Horticulture, Elisabeth C. Miller Library, Otis Hyde Herbarium and Union Bay Natural Area, all of which retain their individual names.
		The UW owns and manages the plant collections in the Washington Park Arboretum and works cooperatively with the city and the nonprofit Arboretum Foundation there.
		The University of Washington Botanic Gardens is a unit of the UW College of Forest Resources.
	www.uwnews.org /article.asp?articleID=11326 (533 words)

	Intimate Landscapes of the Pacific Northwest
		As I was returning from a fall colors photography trip from north-eastern Washington, I stopped at a pullout in the North Cascades National Park and found the whole landscape covered in miniature jewels.
		The Washington Park Arboretum is one of my favorite places because of the diversity of plants that are represented, which ensures great photography throughout most of the year.
		In my exploration of the arboretum I found this cherry tree, native to Japan, with beautiful smooth reddish bark and "eyes." I frequent the Washington Park Arboretum as it offers rare glimpses of plants from remote corners of the world.
	www.phototripusa.com /e_gallery_0500.html (1209 words)

	The Seattle Times: Pacific Northwest Magazine : Growing Our Parks
		An impressive 95 projects are completed or under way, including new parks as well as renovations and expansions of older ones from the northwest corner to the southeast tip of the city.
		Shiosaki notes that much of the actual gardening in the parks now takes place in P-patches and community gardens, which are far more integral to our parks than they used to be.
		Shiosaki's goal is to make all the Pro Parks projects so ably designed, built and maintained that the citizens see their money has been well spent.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /pacificnw/2005/0508/plant.html (859 words)

	Hike Of The Week: Easy strolling in an Emerald City gem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The 230-acre park, created in 1934 and jointly managed by the University of Washington and the City of Seattle with support from the Arboretum Foundation, is a great place right now for a stroll.
		The Olmsted Brothers landscape architecture firm came to Seattle in 1903 to design parks for the city, and their influence lives on in landscapes, curving paths, gardens and boulevards.
		The Olmsteds designed 37 parks for Seattle, and 17 parks and 14 boulevards were built from their original plans.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /getaways/116663_hike10.shtml (1105 words)

	uwnews.org \| University of Washington News and Information
		In recent years there have been separate UW directors for the Center for Urban Horticulture, an outreach and research unit of the university, and Washington Park Arboretum, a Seattle city park of 230 acres where the UW owns and manages the plant collections and works cooperatively with the city and the not-for-profit Arboretum Foundation.
		The center conducts work on such things as preserving Washington's endangered plants, finding ways to re-establish native grasses and plants in the region's prairies, rehabilitating wetlands and natural areas in cities, and helping home gardeners and landscape professionals.
		John Wott, professor of forest resources and director of the Washington Park Arboretum for more than 10 years, is currently serving as acting director of the center in addition to his duties as arboretum director.
	www.uwnews.org /article.asp?articleID=5378 (680 words)

	Hoyt Arboretum Home Page
		Hoyt Arboretum is a much beloved Portland open space, covering 185 ridge top acres about two miles west of downtown.
		Hoyt Arboretum is operated by a partnership between the Hoyt Arboretum Friends and Portland Parks and Recreation.
		Membership in Hoyt Arboretum Friends is a key source of funding for the Arboretum.
	www.hoytarboretum.org (212 words)

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		Since I have not been to the Arboretum in many years, the photos are from the Botanical Garden.
		Washington Park Arboretum is a 230-acre beauty-of-a-garden that escapes most folks who venture into the Seattle area.
		The park is managed and maintained by a party of three: the University of Washington, the City of Seattle and the Arboretum Foundation.
	www.suite101.com /print_article.cfm/3983/78262 (561 words)

	Hotel Vintage Park - Seattle, Washington
		The hotel honors the Washington State Wine Industry by dedicating each of our guestrooms to a local winery or vineyard.
		For information call the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife 360-902-2200 in King County call 206-775-1311 SKIING: There are four ski areas in the Snoqualmie Pass that are less than an hours driving on i-90 from downtown Seattle all have night skiing, equipment rentals, lodge and restaurant facilities.
		Surrounding guests in complete comfort and privacy, the downtown Hotel Vintage Park's 126 guestrooms are named for local wineries and vineyards.
	www.seattlewashingtonhotels.us /10224983.html (770 words)

	Washington Park Arboretum \| Seattle Sights & Activities \| Fodor's Online Travel Guide
		The 230-acre arboretum has more than 130 endangered plants, plus more than 40,000 native and exotic trees, shrubs, and vines from some 4,800 different species and cultivars.
		In warm winters, flowering cherries and plums bloom in its protected valleys as early as late February, while the flowering shrubs in Rhododendron Glen and Azalea Way are in full bloom March through June.
		The Graham Visitors Center at the park's north end has descriptions of the arboretum's flora and fauna, as well as brochures, a garden gift shop, and self-guided walking tour maps.
	www.fodors.com /miniguides/mgresults.cfm?destination=seattle@143&cur_section=sig&property_id=119217 (214 words)

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