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Union Bay Natural Area

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The Union Bay Natural Area (UBNA) in Seattle, Washington, also known as Union Bay Marsh, is the restored remainder of the filled former Union Bay and Union Bay Marsh after University Village Shopping Center, the University of Washington (UW) athletic facilities, buildings, and main parking area (E1). [1]

36 relations: Burke-Gilman Trail, Canal, Commons, Convolvulus arvensis, Daylighting (streams), Golf, Grassland, Husky Ballpark, J. P. Patches, Lake Washington, Lake Washington Ship Canal, Landfill, Laurelhurst, Seattle, Marsh, Montlake Cut, Municipal solid waste, Prairie, Ravenna Creek, River delta, Rubus armeniacus, Seattle, Seattle Public Library, Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway, Shopping mall, Soil, Stream, Swamp, Thornton Creek, Union Bay (Seattle), University of Washington, University Village, Seattle, Urban horticulture, Washington (state), Water resources, Wetland, Yesler Creek.

Burke-Gilman Trail

The Burke-Gilman Trail is a rail trail in King County, Washington.

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Canal

Canals, or navigations, are human-made channels, or artificial waterways, for water conveyance, or to service water transport vehicles.

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Commons

The commons is the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society, including natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable earth.

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Convolvulus arvensis

Convolvulus arvensis (field bindweed) is a species of bindweed in the morning glory family (Convolvulaceae), native to Europe and Asia.

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Daylighting (streams)

In urban design and urban planning, daylighting is the redirection of a stream into an above-ground channel.

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Golf

Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.

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Grassland

Grasslands are areas where the vegetation is dominated by grasses (Poaceae); however, sedge (Cyperaceae) and rush (Juncaceae) families can also be found along with variable proportions of legumes, like clover, and other herbs.

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Husky Ballpark

Husky Ballpark is a college baseball stadium in Seattle, Washington, on the campus of the University of Washington.

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J. P. Patches

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Lake Washington

Lake Washington is a large freshwater lake adjacent to the city of Seattle.

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Lake Washington Ship Canal

The Lake Washington Ship Canal, which runs through the city of Seattle, connects the fresh water body of Lake Washington with the salt water inland sea of Puget Sound.

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Landfill

A landfill site (also known as a tip, dump, rubbish dump, garbage dump or dumping ground and historically as a midden) is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial.

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Laurelhurst, Seattle

Laurelhurst is a residential neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, USA.

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Marsh

A marsh is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous rather than woody plant species.

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Montlake Cut

The Montlake Cut is the easternmost section of the Lake Washington Ship Canal, which passes through the city of Seattle, linking Lake Washington to Puget Sound.

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Municipal solid waste

Municipal solid waste (MSW), commonly known as trash or garbage in the United States and rubbish in Britain, is a waste type consisting of everyday items that are discarded by the public.

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Prairie

Prairies are ecosystems considered part of the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome by ecologists, based on similar temperate climates, moderate rainfall, and a composition of grasses, herbs, and shrubs, rather than trees, as the dominant vegetation type.

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Ravenna Creek

Ravenna Creek is a stream in the Ravenna and Roosevelt neighborhoods of Seattle, Washington, whose present daylighted length of nearly is entirely within the Ravenna & Cowen Parks.

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River delta

A river delta is a landform that forms from deposition of sediment carried by a river as the flow leaves its mouth and enters slower-moving or stagnant water.

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Rubus armeniacus

Rubus armeniacus, the Himalayan blackberry or Armenian blackberry, is a species of Rubus in the blackberry group Rubus subgenus Rubus series Discolores (P.J. Müll.) Focke.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States.

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Seattle Public Library

The Seattle Public Library (SPL) is the public library system serving Seattle, Washington.

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Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway

The Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway (SLS&E) was a railroad founded in Seattle, Washington, on April 28, 1885, with three tiers of purposes: Build and run the initial line to the town of Ballard, bring immediate results and returns to investors; exploit resources east in the valleys, foothills, Cascade Range, and Eastern Washington in 19th-century style, attracting more venture capital; and boost a link to a transcontinental railroad for Seattle, the ultimate prize for incorporation.

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Shopping mall

A shopping mall is a modern, chiefly North American, term for a form of shopping precinct or shopping center, in which one or more buildings form a complex of shops representing merchandisers with interconnecting walkways that enable customers to walk from unit to unit.

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Soil

Soil is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support life.

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Stream

A stream is a body of water with surface water flowing within the bed and banks of a channel.

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Swamp

A swamp is a wetland that is forested.

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Thornton Creek

Thornton Creek is of urban creeks and tributaries from southeast Shoreline through northeast Seattle to Lake Washington.

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Union Bay (Seattle)

Union Bay is a body of water located in Lake Washington, Seattle, Washington.

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University of Washington

The University of Washington (commonly referred to as UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington.

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University Village, Seattle

University Village (colloquially known as U-Village or U-Vill) is a shopping mall in Seattle, Washington, built at the south corner of Ravenna neighborhood.

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Urban horticulture

Horticulture is the science and art of growing fruits and vegetables and also flowers or ornamental plants.

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Washington (state)

Washington, officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Water resources

Water resources are natural resources of water that are potentially useful.

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Wetland

A wetland is a land area that is saturated with water, either permanently or seasonally, such that it takes on the characteristics of a distinct ecosystem.

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Yesler Creek

Yesler Creek is a stream that originates in the Bryant and Wedgwood neighborhoods of Seattle, Washington and flows southward to empty into Union Bay of Lake Washington.

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Redirects here:

Union Bay Marsh, University Slough.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Bay_Natural_Area

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