You are cordially invited to a fun spring planting party for UW's Restoration Ecology Network. This is your chance to get outside and get dirty in the name of restoration TOMORROW!
We are installing plants this Saturday, March 31 from 12noon to 3pm, at our Yesler Creek site. Thanks to the good work of volunteers in February, our site has been released from the clutch of invasive weeds. We have also installed some live stake willows and cottonwoods, so the creek bank looks much different than before we began! This Saturday we will be installing native plants, applying mulch and planning a nature art project!
Please come join us if you have the time! We provide the snacks, coffee and tools - just bring yourself and some water-proof boots if you have them!
Details:
Benefits to you:
Provide a valuable community service
Talk with friends and meet new people!
Learn about plants and local watersheds
Eat and drink free snacks!
Get outside and get dirty!
12noon - 3pm
Where:
Yesler Creek at the Burke Gilman Playground
40th Ave NE & NE 55th Street - Near Metropolitan Market and the Ronald McDonald House
Google Maps link: A) is Metropolitan Market. B) is our work site.
http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=5250+40th+Ave+NE,+Seattle,+WA+98105+(Metropolitan+Market+Sand+Point)&daddr=47.666378,-122.283087&hl=en&ll=47.666429,-122.283255&spn=0.004327,0.006008&sll=47.666327,-122.283247&sspn=0.001082,0.001502&geocode=CUJDlOODUmerFeRb1wIdUhi2-CE2SqUS07Vnjw%3B&vpsrc=6&mra=mift&mrsp=1&sz=20&t=h&z=18
Drivers: Park your car at the Metropolitan Market. >From Metro. Market take a left on the Burke-Gilman for 25 yards, take a right at Burke-Gilman Park sign. Party is straight ahead!
Bikers: Use the Burke!!! How convenient! Take a right at the Burke-Gilman Park sign. Party straight ahead!
By bus: From UW, the 65 toward Lake City Wedgewood stops at 55th St and 39th Ave NE. Walk one block east to Metro Market, get on the Burke, right at the Park sign, as above.
Alternatively, the 30 stops along 55th and the 75 goes down Sand Point Way, where you can get off and walk through the park to the site.
What to bring/wear:
Bring your water bottle and your weed warrior attitude! Please wear clothes that you can get dirty/wet and bring RAIN BOOTS. The bottom of the creek is mucky and, from personal experience, I know how easy it is to step in the wrong place and start sinking! Rain boots are clutch! If you don't have any, try to borrow some from a friend, or alternatively, we will have you work on more elevated parts of the site. Feel free to bring gloves if you have some you like; we will provide gloves, tools and snacks for everyone
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Jessica (JP) Potter-Bowers
University of Washington Masters in Education student
919/244.3948
jesspott@gmail.com
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