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In addition to providing recreation opportunities for the island's residents and visitors, the Park District's mission also includes preserving green space and protecting wildlife.
To that end, we ask visitors to consider their impact on the natural beauty around them and embrace the following guidelines.
PLEASE read about dog-friendly parks prior to bringing your pets with you.
These parks were created with the idea that when people are more in touch with nature, they can more deeply appreciate the need to protect our flora and fauna. It's important to stay on the trails to ensure a minimal impact on the ecosystem.
These parks are their home...where they raise their young and do their best to thrive in a world being slowly taken over by humans. Please be considerate of them.
Within these parks, all living organisms are protected from human interaction. That includes fish, crabs, shellfish, and all other marine and terrestrial animals. Please follow a hands-off policy. Leave the fish, clams, and crabs for the wildlife. We do allow limited personal foraging of plants, so please refer to those details below.
Branches, driftwood, sand, rocks, shells...they all make up the ecosystem in these parks. By removing "treasures" from our parks and beaches, you are removing someone's home, building material, or barricade from the elements. Please don't collect anything from our parks.
We encourage you to sit a spell and appreciate the quiet beauty of these parks. However, there are no trash cans, so please plan accordingly. Bring in what you need, and please take all trash and evidence of your visit back out of the park with you.
As a general rule, please be mindful of your impact on these fragile ecosystems. The crunch under your feet as you walk along the tideflats may be a sand dollar bed being accidentally crushed. The eagle you are trying to get closer to may be frightened off from the fish it was targeting to take home to its hungry eaglets. Observe, enjoy, learn, marvel...but please consider how your actions impact this park and its inhabitants.
In 2025, Anderson Island Park & Recreation District updated its Parks Use Code to allow limited foraging for personal use.
Prior to this, no botanical or edible items were allowed to be taken from the park. Recognizing that this policy was out of alignment with how constituents used our parks and foraging policies across local and state parks, the updated rules outline quantities and species of plants that may be ethically harvested.
Below are general foraging guidelines and the specific harvesting rules for our parks.
Only harvest plants you have properly identified, are safe for the intended purpose and in our parks, only from the list of species identified below.
Remember that you share this resource with many others. Only harvest plants that are plentiful and gather only what’s necessary - no more than 1/10th to 1/3 of any given plant.
Avoid areas that are unsafe - like roadsides and tidal areas with sticky mud - and harvest during prime yield times for the species you seek.
Be a gentle forager on the landscape. Stay on the trails and don't trample foliage. Use proper tools to harvest and remember that it should always look like you were never there.
The following fruits, nuts, berries or unoccupied seashells may be gathered by hand for personal use or consumption, in accordance with the noted size, quantity, collection sites and/or use or consumption restrictions.
The gathering or possession of edible fruits and berries is limited to one liter (1.0 quart) per person per day.
The following plants may be harvested for personal use (no commercial harvesting) using ethical foraging practices defined by sustainable wildcrafting sources: harvest 1/3 or less of a plant in a given stand, and only if the plant is plentiful and not at risk.