Recreation Northwest Charts a New Path Story by Todd Elsworth
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advocacy. We created a pilot program, Parkscriptions, to promote spending time in nature. Our geographic and demographic scopes have changed along with the people we’ve worked with and served. Through our pandemic pivot, we chose to focus on further developing and merging our Fairhaven Park Stewardship and Parkscriptions programs to create opportunities for the public to get outside. Working together with the Bellingham Parks and Recreation Department, Recreation Northwest became Park Stewards for Fairhaven Park in 2014. We chose this particular park due to the impacts of the Bellingham Traverse This evolution is our reWork Party at the Fairhaven Park Native Plant Garden in Fairhaven Park. Trail Run leg – our signature sponse to the impact we felt as the Photo by Caleb Savage event at the time. Building on pandemic wave swept away our Historically, Recreation Northwest our years of stewardship, we were busy events and related activities. So we went has served a variety of communities. last year removing wildlife barriers and back to the drawing board. With funding We began with multi-sport races, added with our partners from Wild Whatcom secured in 2021 to explore opportunities park stewardship and expanded into outand Phillips 66 Refinery, removing for new programs, we focused on movdoor recreation economic development additional invasive species and creating forward as a nimble organization and
ecreation Northwest, known over the years for producing community events like the Recreation Northwest Expo and the Bellingham Traverse, now plans to leverage our Fairhaven Park Stewardship and Parkscriptions programs to expand and evolve into new programming and efforts to benefit our community. In addition, we are evolving to add Outdoor Recreation & Nature Education programs for the public as the path forward to meet the needs of our community.
have added capacity to fulfill these goals. Our primary partners are Bellingham Parks and Recreation, Bellingham Tourism, and the WWU Recreation & Management Leadership Department.
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