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Join Friends of the ACFL for our April family hike to celebrate Earth Day while exploring and learning about how to take care of our forest.
Join us in the Forest Discovery Center during The Anacortes Earth Day Festival and make a pollinator puddler with us!
Join Friends of the ACFL for our May family hike to celebrate our birds and the migrations they make to join us each springtime. During this bird bonanza, we’ll look and listen for some of our common forest birds, learn about why and how birds move during the year, and step into the shoes (or rather wings) of our feathered friends to play our own migration game.
Celebrate the return of spring with a bracing hike through Sugarloaf’s flowering meadows! Join Friends of the Forest as we explore the many spring flowers that call the ACFL home (and the view will be nice, too.)
Come downtown to Commercial Ave and take part in two days of joy, art, music, and education as we honor and celebrate our natural environment from the forest to the sea!
The Anacortes Community Forest Lands (ACFL) are more than just trails and trees; they’re a living classroom, a shared sanctuary, and a model of community stewardship. The ACFL Forest Plan, developed by the City of Anacortes Parks and Recreation Department (APRD), details strategies and actions to protect and improve the area's distinctive ecosystems and habitats. It balances conservation efforts with recreational access for residents and visitors alike.
For many of us, spring may still seem a distant blip on the horizon, but careful forest-goers might notice our four-legged amphibian friends hopping (and crawling) to it! This season of not-quite-winter and not-quite-spring is the perfect setting for many of our local frogs and salamanders to gather and kickstart the next generation.