LYNNWOOD—For the last 40-years Lynnwood’s Scriber Lake Boardwalk Trail floated through peatlands, providing access to nature for generations but over time its infrastructure began to deteriorate and fail. At that time the City of Lynnwood was presented with a difficult decision: Either close the trail permanently or completely replace it.

Choosing the latter, the City’s Parks and Recreation Department embarked on an ambitious plan that many stakeholders didn’t believe was possible. To receive crucial Washington Recreation and Conservation (RCO) funding, for example, the team needed to bring the project to 60% completion in just six months. It was a plan so ambitious that at the time Henry Smith, with the RCO, denied the grant request.

“When this project applied, we were dealing with COVI

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