Author: Francesca Lyman

DCNA has carried out many more initiatives, among them parks litter cleanup, backyard wildlife sanctuaries, garden tours, and others. Here’s a list of DCNA projects over the years: Erosion control.  Planting and armoring banks to control erosion of the lower O. O. Denny Creek. Trails.  Maintaining and improving trails in O.O. Denny Park Beach restoration. Undertaking various activities to improve the beach areas at O.O.Denny Park, volunteers added their support to regular parks maintenance crews Erosion protection. Intervening when the county decided to build a cement bulkhead by the beach waterfront, volunteers built a more ecologically sound timber bulkhead...

The Finn Hill Neighborhood Alliance is an independent, community-based nonprofit, which started out as a grassroots volunteer organization called the Denny Creek Neighborhood Alliance (DCNA), formed in 1994. Organized to protect the quality of the community’s rich woodlands and waterways, it also raised public awareness of these natural backyard treasures over many years’ time. The genesis of DCNA In the beginning was the Woods. And the woods were with dogs. In the woods were trail walkers, and children, hikers and joggers. While it’s hard to pinpoint any specific Genesis story, friends and neighbors of Finn Hill and Holmes Point,...