Join us for the 38th Annual Summer Lecture Series, held on Wednesday nights in July and August at 7 p.m. This free event is held in the Norm Dicks Visitor Center Auditorium. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and attendance is limited to 100. Find out about the big changes in store for Capitol Lake and Budd Inlet through the Deschutes Estuary Restoration Project. Like the Nisqually Delta Restoration in 2010, this project will restore estuary habitat to South Puget Sound. The Deschutes Estuary Restoration Project team will present on this transformational restoration project, which will restore 260 acres of historic estuarine and salt-marsh habitat at the mouth of the Deschutes River, at the footstep of the Capitol Campus, and along the shorelines of Olympia and Tumwater. The presentation will overview site conditions, design concepts, and benefits of estuary restoration in this unique urban setting.
Presenter Tessa Gardner-Brown (Managing Principal and Senior Environmental Planner, Floyd|Snider) has served key roles in the planning processes of the region鈥檚 most complex infrastructure projects, including the SR 520 Bridge Replacement Project and the Elliott Bay Seawall Replacement Project in downtown Seattle. She is currently the consultant team Project Manager for the Deschutes Estuary Restoration Project, following her leadership of the Capitol Lake 鈥� Deschutes Estuary Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). She manages coordination across a large interdisciplinary team of technical experts and engineers and oversees an extensive outreach program. We will also hear from Shaina Thompson and Henry Bell from the Washington State Department of Ecology.