Projects

LEAD Projects

LEAD organizes volunteer projects and hosts weekly community work parties.

Learn more about how to join our work parties by visiting our Facebook page. Discover what we do by visiting one of our projects below.

Group of LEAD volunteers gather in the forest over a pile of weeds that are stacked on a tarp.

Miyawaki Method Mini-Forest, North Campus

At this site, we hope to transform a degraded area overgrown by non-native plants back into a forest characteristic of the Coastal Western Hemlock biogeoclimatic zone.

Learn more about the Miyawaki Method

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Volunteer with LEAD

View our Past Projects

Environmental Restoration Work Party

Group of Western student volunteers wearing work gloves and jackets, working outside with tools in hand.

In collaboration with the City of Bellingham and 52 volunteers, we were able to plant 133 shrubs and 10 trees, removed yards of invasive species and spread a ton of mulch.

Sehome Arboretum Work Party

Four volunteers for LEAD crouch in the woods in the tall grass, working with tools in hand.

Collaborating with local partners, LEAD removed lots of invasive species, found some cassette tapes, and planted new native species to restore the area.

Fir Creek Restoration Project

Large group of 26 volunteers stand along the tree line at the Fir Creek work party.

In collaboration with Whatcom Land Trust LEAD removed non-native Himalayan Blackberries and English Holly to restore wildlife habitat.