Talk:Puget Creek

Notes on recent editing

I made a few changes to this page and couldn't fit everything I wanted to say about it into the edit summary box, so and writing it here. First I added a reference section and expanded the pugetcreek.org cites to a couple pages. I couldn'd find "Puget Creek" in the GNIS database, but did find it in Tacoma Library's Place Names database, which was a nice find. I could not find anything saying the creek is sometimes called Proctor Creek. Could anyone back that up with some source? I think I had heard that before, but can't quite recall. The Tacoma Library entry had a bit of name origin info which I added. I took out the various comments about "current" projects. In Wikipedia years may pass with little edits to a page like this, so "current" is probably not the best term to use. Looking at the pugetcreek.org site I got the sense that the "current" projects described here are no longer current. So I was bold and simply took those details out, replacing them with a bit of info on the return of salmon. Anyone who wants to know about ongoing work should check the pugetcreek website instead of Wikipedia. But I'll copy over the text I took out:

Currently students at the 5-12 Learning Community are helping restore the Creek alongside other members of the community as part of a project called "Week Without Walls" where students get out of the daily in school routine and get out in the community to make a difference. Current projects include the reintroduction of coho and chum salmon to the creek . Bat boxes have been installed around the park . Puget creek hummingbird garden features many different hummingbird flowers and butterfly plants. Planted in raised beds and labeled for identification for education.

I also took out the little blurb about another creek with the same name:

Puget Creek is also a small creek in West Seattle, flowing into the Duwamish River from Puget Park on SW Dawson Street near 19th Avenue SW.

I didn't find any Puget Creeks in the USGS GNIS database. Perhaps there is a Puget Creek in Seattle, but even so there's no need to mention it here. If there is a page on that creek we can make hatnotes pointing one to the other. There is no page at the moment. Might as well let things be until such a page is made. Hmm.. I think that is all. The various articles on urban creeks in the Seattle-Tacoma area are in need of much attention. Sure they are small, but urban creeks are notable and unusual, and tend to have lots of history and published info. The Portland, Oregon folks have been making excellent articles on their urban creeks, setting a high standard and showing what is possible. See for example Balch Creek, Columbia Slough, Fairview Creek, and Tryon Creek. Pfly (talk) 09:24, 25 October 2009 (UTC)