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Madrona Woods: maintenance on our latest restoration projectMay 25, 10am-1pm @ Madrona Park With help from your friendly hosts, browse our recent restoration efforts on a search and destroy mission for blackberry and bindweed resprouting. Neither will be hard to find! Depending on weather, we may do some watering as well. Also included: an optional pilgrimmage to the 1940s car carcass where volunteers may pray to the god, corporation (Ford), or metal (chrome) of their choice. more |
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Native Plant ID Walk – Plant AssociationsMay 25, 10am-12pm @ Point Defiance Park In order to provide Habitat Stewards and interested others with educational opportunities and practical advice on how to reduce restoration costs, the Green Tacoma Partnership is offering a series of demonstrations and plant ID walks. In 2012, participants learned how to prepare live stakes and to propagate native plants from hardwood cuttings. Taking cuttings at the right time of the year, however, requires fairly detailed plant ID skills because they look so different during the winter season. Learning to identify plants at different times throughout the season is both fun and rewarding, and certainly important for our propagation of desirable restoration species. This native plant identification outing builds upon two winter twig ID walks offered in January and February of this year. Join Anna Thurston of Advanced Botanical Resources, Inc. for this plant ID walk in support of restoration activities coordinated by the Green Tacoma Partnership. On this walk you will identify and learn about native plants commonly used in forest and upland restoration projects. The Point Defiance NW Native Plant Garden features a forest garden, pond garden, dry garden, woodland garden, and a meadow, among other habitats, making it the perfect place to learn about natural plant associations. In addition to plant ID you’ll learn about what kinds of soil, light and moisture conditions these varied plant associations prefer to further your own habitat restoration activities while leading the community toward a more sustainable and resilient future. more |
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Restoration is for Everyone!May 25, 10am-2pm @ Seward Park Did you know that over 100 bird species reside in or migrate through the forest and shores of Seward Park each year? Seward Park Audubon is dedicated to the preservation of the park's native habitat, which is why we host restoration work parties on the 4th Saturday of every month! When we say "Restoration is for Everyone"....we mean it! Bring along your family & friends for a day of on-the-ground conservation work through restoration. Be ready to remove invasive plants, plant native ones.... and learn all about the native fauna & avifauna you're work will support. The day will be led by our Teacher Naturalists and will start at 10am. more |
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Spring in all it's gloryMay 25, 10am-2pm @ St. Marks Greenbelt Come out and help maintain our greenbelt in all it's glory. more |
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Meadowbrook Makeover!May 26, 12:30pm-2:30pm @ Meadowbrook Playfield Come give Meadowbrook a much needed makeover! We will be getting rid of more invasive weeds like morning glory and English ivy, and replacing these nasty species with nice, new native plants like sword ferns and salmonberry! NOTE: THIS IS EVENT IS FOR WNPS STEWARD TRAINING. THIS IS NOT A REAL EVENT. more |
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Moving the wood chips again.May 27, 8:30am-12:30pm @ Burke-Gilman Trail Moving wood chips. Will they never end? more |
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Pulling at the Metro Market areaMay 29, 8:30am-12:30pm @ Burke-Gilman Trail See a weed, pull a weed. See a weed, pull a weed. I think you got the picture. We are doing some annual reweeding of already cleared and planted park land. See some sun, see a weed,.... more |
