Goats in McKinley Park

September 12, 2010
Funded by a grant by the City of Tacoma and coordinated through Tacoma's Metro Parks"Chip In Program" 240 goats are eating their way through McKinley Park consuming invasive plants such as English Ivy and Balckbeery. The goats will be residences of the park from Sept 9 thru Sept 16. During this time they will be able to consume several acres of invasive plants and save many hours of volunteer time and sore backs.

It's hopeful that we can continue to repeat this event in the future. Our graditude goes to the volunteers that made this happen, City of Tacoma and Metro Parks.

 

How the Park got its Name

January 13, 2010

Martin Hoveland

By Bob Heilman

October 20, 1934

Here’s the man that started all the McKinleys in Tacoma. His name is Martin Hoveland and he was with the Metropolitan Park District way back in 1901. At that time McKinley Park didn’t even have a name; on the map of the city it was simply “East Park”. On the day after the assassination of the 25th President of the United States, Martin Hoveland said to his co-workers, “Boys from now on this is McKinley Park.” And it has been. The ...


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Stage 1 of Park Clean-Up

January 13, 2010
This area of the park is where we'll start our clean-up in 2010 removing invasive species like English Ivy...

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