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Yesler Creek is a stream that originates in the Bryant and
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, and flows southward to empty into Union Bay of
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. Portions are daylighted, such as those flowing between 39th and 40th Avenue NE and through Burke Gilman Park. The stream also continues underground underneath
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Restoration

Members of the Green Seattle Partnership and the
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Restoration Ecology Network (UW-REN) have conducted work parties to mulch, clear invasive plants and plant native vegetation around the stream in Burke Gilman Park


See also

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Ravenna Creek Ravenna Creek is a stream in the Ravenna, Seattle, Ravenna and Roosevelt, Seattle, Roosevelt neighborhoods of Seattle, Washington (state), Washington, whose present Daylighting (streams), daylighted length of nearly is entirely within the Ravenna ...
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Thornton Creek Thornton Creek is of urban creeks and tributaries from southeast Shoreline through northeast Seattle to Lake Washington. Its watershed, the largest in Seattle, exhibits relatively dense biodiversity for an urban setting;Brokaw it is home to fr ...


References

* Landforms of Seattle Rivers of Washington (state) Rivers of King County, Washington {{Washington-river-stub