In an effort to enhance and stabilize habitats, the City of Seattle pursued a $1.1 million habitat improvement project for 35 acres of the 500-acre Discovery Park. Led by Swift & Company, the consultant team and client developed habitat improvements that brought the park ecosystems closer to a self-sustaining "wilderness" park within the city.

Photographs by Benjamin Benschneider and Barbara Swift

Since construction in 1995, the project has received national recognition for the innovative approach to land reclamation, control of the invasive, noxious weed - Scot's Broom. Additional recognition came from multiple news articles, a Masters thesis, and a December 1996 article in Landscape Architecture Magazine.

Features:

• Sweeping meadows
• Maturing second-growth forests
• Eroding bluffs
• Sandy beaches
• Soil nutrient banks
• Structural diversity in plantings
• Visitor amenities

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