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Alder Trail at Goodyear Heights Metro Park
Several pieces of graph paper with hand-drawn illustrations of garden bed plans. The drawings include different colored circles indicating different plants used.

Planning your Wild Back Yard spring garden

Janean Kazimir, Interpretive NaturalistHave fun imagining your own space by creating a garden plan.Snowy winter days are the perfect . . .
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A stone path leads through a variety of native plants to a grassy yard and pergola.

Discover the benefits of a Wild Back Yard

Lindsay Smith, Brand ManagerSummit Metro Parks invites you to explore ways small differences at home can make a . . .
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Trees with orange, yellow and green leaves hang over Sand Run Stream.

Restoring and protecting Sand Run Metro Park (part III)

This is the third in a series of posts about significant grant-funded improvements to protect the roads, trails . . .
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A woman stands fishing on a dock that extends into Summit Lake.

Black History Month: Achievements in environmental justice and inclusion

A woman fishes from a wooden dock at Summit Lake. Photo by Jerry Cannon Throughout history, Black people . . .
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A group of kids running through a field.

Thank you for being a friend … of the Metro Parks

Victoria Putnam, Community Engagement ManagerFriends of Metro Parks has supported educational programs that connect kids to nature for decades.What . . .
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