Discovery Elementary (Site #1947) - Sammamish, WA

All grade levels use this wetland as an outdoor classroom to learn about the local environment. Lessons such as water ecology, native plant studies, wetland studies, and insect studies take place. Trails have been constructed, native plants have been established and the removal of invasive plants continues.

Use: Schoolyard

Features: pond, stream, wetland, spring, forest

Wildlife: nesting winter wren, crow, nesting red-wing, blackbirds, stellars jay, cedar waxwing, downy woodpecker, sapsucker, flicker, pileated woodpecker, mountain chickadee, white breasted nuthatch, seasonal vireos, warblers, red tailed hawk, coopers hawk, northwest salamander, townsend salamander, tree frog, green frog, coyote, raccoon, opossum, deer, squirrel, field mouse, dragonfly, water boatman, copepods, caddisfly, damselfly

Plants: red elderberry, spirea, holly, salmonberry, thimbleberry, salal, Oregon grape, ocean spray, snowberry, mountain ash, nootka rose, wild rose, hedge nettle, parentucellia, wetland aster, fireweed, foxglove, Canadian thistle, bluebell, goldenrod, sow thistle, bull thistle, oxeye daisy, curly dock, St. John’s wort, pearly everlasting, yarrow, bog trefoil, heal-all, purple nightshade, hawksbeard, big leaf maple, red alder, Oregon ash, red osier dogwood, sitka willow, Douglas fir, red cedar, western hemlock, black cottonwood, quaking aspen, blue spruce, pacific willow, vine maple, sitka alder, madrone, Indian plum, waterflag iris, cattail, pepperwort, water plantain, marsh cinqfoil, water paslane, American speedwell, couch grass, fescue, timothy grass, barnyard grass, soft rush, slough sedge, awned sedge, rye grass, orchard grass, one sided rush, jointed rush, soft stem rush, sickle leaved rush, foxtail, bluegrass, creeping rush, creeping spike, rush, ovate spike rush, tufted club sedge, lady fern, bracken fern, large leaf avens, horsetail, bird vetch, American vetch, tree moss, creeping buttercup, wet rock moss, white clover, trailing blackberry

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