Environment

Gig Harborites love the natural surroundings in which they live, and Gig Harbor Now staff members keep them apprised of opportunities to enjoy and preserve their forests, waters and creatures.

Data on lead in Donkey Creek slows to a trickle

Apr 21, 2022 | By: David Armstrong

Donkey Creek is an unprepossessing-looking stream, but glamour isn’t everything. The small salmon-bearing creek is well-known and well-liked by locals and visitors. The waterway takes an annual star turn when fish fans venture to its banks for the Donkey Creek Chum Festival, a celebration of the salmons’ return to the stream where they were born,

The property is adjacent to Austing Street and Donkey Creek Park.

Grant helps move North Creek land purchase closer to reality

Apr 18, 2022 | By: Vince Dice

Thanks in part to a $20,000 grant from the Russell Family Foundation, the Gig Harbor Land Conservation Fund has already achieved a key benchmark toward acquiring 5.15 acres of forested land near Donkey Creek Park. The recently-launched Conservation Fund had been planning a fundraising campaign for this week, hoping to raise $50,000 to contribute to

Neighbors of proposed sports complex want to know its impacts

Apr 08, 2022 | By: Ed Friedrich

The group is circulating petitions to submit to the City Council asking for environmental impact studies on the entire project by an independent agency.

Areas proposed for residential dock prohibition are marked in red on this map.

New restrictions on docks proposed for parts of Fox Island, Key Peninsula

Apr 05, 2022 | By: Vince Dice

Pierce County is proposing prohibiting new residential docks and piers on 7.3 miles of shoreline on Fox Island and the Key Peninsula. The prohibition is among five proposed amendments to the county’s Shoreline Master Program, a set of regulations required by the state Shoreline Management Act. The other amendments deal with aquaculture, fencing within buffers

Gig Harbor Police captured the scenes above and below at Skansie Brothers Park.

King tides a rising threat in Gig Harbor

Mar 31, 2022 | By: David Armstrong

Gig Harbor’s Midway School, a lovingly restored one-room schoolhouse built in 1893 and relocated to the Harbor History Museum on an oversized truck in 2009, is due for another change. This time it’s thanks mainly to rising sea levels and higher, stronger king tides that inundate the harbor shoreline several times a year. The folks

City attempting to conserve another 5.15 acres near Donkey Creek Park

Feb 16, 2022 | By: Charlee Glock-Jackson

The forested property might otherwise be subdivided into 18 single-family lots with a public road.

Exterior of Swift Water Elementary School in Gig Harbor

Three of Peninsula’s new elementary buildings recognized as ‘green’ schools

Feb 04, 2022 | By: Christina T Henry

Evergreen, Pioneer and Swift Water elementary schools were built with funds from the 2019 bond.

A small bridge crosses Donkey/North Creek in the property that the city hopes to purchase.

New land conservation fund targets pockets in and around Gig Harbor

Jan 18, 2022 | By: Ted Kenney

Gig Harbor Land Conservation Fund will have matching funds available for other groups to quickly acquire grants. A condition of its contribution is that the public have access to the properties.