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September 01, 2026 |
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Junes Cathedral Blackberry ManagementSeptember 01, 9:30am-12:30pm @ Discovery Park Come and join me for some some overdue maintenance of this highly-visited portion of Discovery Park! Junes Cathedral is a beautiful parcel with shady conifer stands, giant maple trees, and sunny meadows. Today we will be cutting back and digging up the aggressive Himalayan blackberry patch that's rapidly spreading into the adjacent meadow. Later in the fall, we'll be planting the areas we've cleared with native plants, to provide food and habitat for the park's many species. more |
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MRSC Staff Impact DaySeptember 01, 10:30am-2:30pm @ Burke-Gilman Trail MRSC staff impact day (private). Definitely NOT your typical workday. Enjoy being outside tending to Seattle's longest and thinnest park. You'll help us weed, pull-up invasive plants and grasses, gather or spread flower seeds and create snowberry live stakes for future autumn planting events. more |
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Back to Beaver Pond Restoration EventSeptember 03, 10am-12pm @ Beaver Pond Natural Area on TC While the kids go back to school, let's get back to nature! We will be removing invasives and freeing up some trees on a less well-known path near the creek. Let the trees breathe easier AND make it easier for our neighbors to enjoy them. Whether it's ivy, blackberry, or bindweed, come find your favorite invasive to remove. more |
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Daybreak Community & Land TendingSeptember 03, 11am-3pm @ Daybreak Star We invite you to join us in tending the land at Daybreak Star Cultural Center. These gatherings are a return—to land, to care, and to being in right relationship with one another. Guided by Indigenous leadership at the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, we come together to practice food sovereignty, cultural memory, and collective care in ways that are grounded, relational, and real. This season, we are tending the Forest Garden, a living space that supports elders, youth, and Indigenous-centered community programs while growing a future rooted in reciprocity, responsibility, and long-term care. All ages are welcome. You’re invited to come move your body, tend the land, and be in community—whether you stay for a couple of hours or the full day. Together, we’ll engage in hands-on care of the land through planting, weeding, harvesting, and seasonal projects, while also making space for connection, learning, and shared reflection. If you’re looking for a place to show up, build relationships, and grow something lasting, this is a space to gather, care for the land, and imagine what’s possible—together. more |
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Daybreak Community & Land TendingSeptember 04, 11am-3pm @ Daybreak Star We invite you to join us in tending the land at Daybreak Star Cultural Center. These gatherings are a return—to land, to care, and to being in right relationship with one another. Guided by Indigenous leadership at the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, we come together to practice food sovereignty, cultural memory, and collective care in ways that are grounded, relational, and real. This season, we are tending the Forest Garden, a living space that supports elders, youth, and Indigenous-centered community programs while growing a future rooted in reciprocity, responsibility, and long-term care. All ages are welcome. You’re invited to come move your body, tend the land, and be in community—whether you stay for a couple of hours or the full day. Together, we’ll engage in hands-on care of the land through planting, weeding, harvesting, and seasonal projects, while also making space for connection, learning, and shared reflection. If you’re looking for a place to show up, build relationships, and grow something lasting, this is a space to gather, care for the land, and imagine what’s possible—together. All ages OK more |
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Weeding close to the 3 benchesSeptember 04, 9am-12:30pm @ Burke-Gilman Trail Weeding close to the three benches. We can use the benches when we get there. more |
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Capehart weeding, watering and mulchingSeptember 05, 10am-12pm @ Discovery Park Capehart Forest is the most wildlife-diverse area in Discovery Park. Come help us promote forest health and increase its biodiversity by weeding out invasive plants and watering native plants. We will be removing invasive blackberries, scotch broom, English ivy and grass as well as watering and mulching around native trees, shrubs and pollinator plants. more |
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Kubota forest work - always ivy!September 05, 10am-12pm @ Kubota Gardens Natural Area So much ivy! Every month, volunteers work on removing ivy so that trees, bushes, ferns and other native plants have room to grow. As you will quickly see, the ivy covers large areas of ground and is climbing up trees. We also are discovering small Himalayan blackberry plants and getting those out immediately is a priority. No experience is needed - just bring your energy and interest in making a difference! Did I mention the homemade cookies? more |
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Root in ReciprocitySeptember 05, 10am-12:30pm @ Seward Park Caring for the land that cares for us. The land around us has been scarred by pollution, carved over by development, and fragmented by development expansion. To live in reciprocity means to give back, to tend, and to restore what has been lost. Are you in good relations with the land? By stepping into this work, we have the chance to give back, repair habitats, support native wildlife, and strengthen our connection to the Land. Restoration is our way of returning care to the land that has long sustained us. Join us at Seward Park Audubon Center for Root in Reciprocity: Tend Together. Together, we’ll be engaging in either the removal and repurpose of introduced species, plant native flora, and restore habitats that sustain birds, pollinators, and the broader ecosystem. All tools, guidance, and materials are provided, just bring your curiosity, care, and willingness to get your hands in the soil. more |
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Peppi's Woods Watering and MulchingSeptember 06, 9am-11:30am @ Peppi's Playground We'll be watering baby trees and shrubs, and spreading mulch in preparation for fall planting. **Please note this work party starts and ends a little earlier than our normal monthly events** more |
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Daybreak Community & Land TendingSeptember 10, 11am-3pm @ Daybreak Star We invite you to join us in tending the land at Daybreak Star Cultural Center. These gatherings are a return—to land, to care, and to being in right relationship with one another. Guided by Indigenous leadership at the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, we come together to practice food sovereignty, cultural memory, and collective care in ways that are grounded, relational, and real. This season, we are tending the Forest Garden, a living space that supports elders, youth, and Indigenous-centered community programs while growing a future rooted in reciprocity, responsibility, and long-term care. All ages are welcome. You’re invited to come move your body, tend the land, and be in community—whether you stay for a couple of hours or the full day. Together, we’ll engage in hands-on care of the land through planting, weeding, harvesting, and seasonal projects, while also making space for connection, learning, and shared reflection. If you’re looking for a place to show up, build relationships, and grow something lasting, this is a space to gather, care for the land, and imagine what’s possible—together. All ages OK more |
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Daybreak Community & Land TendingSeptember 11, 11am-3pm @ Daybreak Star We invite you to join us in tending the land at Daybreak Star Cultural Center. These gatherings are a return—to land, to care, and to being in right relationship with one another. Guided by Indigenous leadership at the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, we come together to practice food sovereignty, cultural memory, and collective care in ways that are grounded, relational, and real. This season, we are tending the Forest Garden, a living space that supports elders, youth, and Indigenous-centered community programs while growing a future rooted in reciprocity, responsibility, and long-term care. All ages are welcome. You’re invited to come move your body, tend the land, and be in community—whether you stay for a couple of hours or the full day. Together, we’ll engage in hands-on care of the land through planting, weeding, harvesting, and seasonal projects, while also making space for connection, learning, and shared reflection. If you’re looking for a place to show up, build relationships, and grow something lasting, this is a space to gather, care for the land, and imagine what’s possible—together. All ages OK more |
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More Weeding along the Trail south of NE 60thSeptember 11, 9am-12:30pm @ Burke-Gilman Trail We'll continue our weeding operation along this part of the Trail more |
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Capehart weeding, watering and mulchingSeptember 12, 10am-12pm @ Discovery Park Capehart Forest is the most wildlife-diverse area in Discovery Park. Come help us promote forest health and increase its biodiversity by weeding out invasive plants and watering native plants. We will be removing invasive blackberries, scotch broom, English ivy and grass as well as watering and mulching around native trees, shrubs and pollinator plants. more |
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Golden Gardens Park work partiesSeptember 12, 9am-12pm @ Golden Gardens Park Do you want to restore the forest at Golden Gardens Park? Come out and help us the second Saturday of every month. We remove invasive weeds and plant native species that return the forest to a more natural ecosystem. We provide tools and training so we only need your enthusiasm to help restore this beautiful park. more |
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HAVE FUN, GET FITSeptember 12, 10am-1pm @ Licton Springs Park Removing invasive plants and spreading woodchips. In the Fall we plant. more |
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Orchard Street Ravine Work PartySeptember 12, 10am-1pm @ Orchard Street Ravine Join other enthusiastic volunteers for a fun morning restoring and preserving our native forest. more |
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Restoration work in Lincoln ParkSeptember 12, 9am-12pm @ Lincoln Park We will be working on the east side of our Fauntleroy site to eventually connect to the main Fauntleroy site. The Fauntleroy site was literally a bramble patch (good for "wrabbits" maybe but they have plenty of other blackberry areas to choose from). The Fauntleroy site has mostly transformed into a beautifully restored area. more |
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Sturtevant Ravine Work Party!September 12, 9am-11am @ Sturtevant Ravine Help continue forest restoration at the Ravine! We will clearing out blackberry and other plants that are surrounding native plants that need our support. more |
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Trail Maintenance with Schmitz Park RestoreSeptember 12, 10am-12pm @ Schmitz Preserve Park Help the community group, Schmitz Park Restore, haul gravel to make muddy sections of the main trail easily passable. We will be hauling gravel using wheel barrows and buckets. There will be easy weeding available for those who don’t want to haul gravel. more |
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Westcrest Park- Fallin' for Fungi!September 12, 10am-1pm @ Westcrest Park Join Dirt Corps this September as we're Fallin' for Fungi and caring for Westcrest trails. We'll be learning a bit about the fungi in our forest and how they interact with their ecosystem and its health. We'll then be removing non-native weeds such as blackberry from around plants and bare ground to help the native plants there grow and thrive and to make way for new native plantings in the fall. We hope to see you there! more |
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Green Lake Work PartySeptember 13, 9am-12pm @ Green Lake Park In preparation for Fall planting season, we will be tackling the bindweed thugs just NE of the frog pond. It is so satisfying to see what is underneath the mat of the bindweed. more |
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Longfellow Creek Community Restoration DaySeptember 13, 10am-1pm @ Longfellow Creek GS: Central Happy Latine Conservation Month! Join ECOSS, Beavers Northwest, and Vietnamese Cultural Center to kick off the Latine Conservation Month in nature, working on our habitat restoration site. We will be removing non-native plants to help established plants to continue thriving and take part in community water quality testing. Lunch will be provided. ¡Feliz Mes de la Conservación Latine! Acompaña a ECOSS, Beavers Northwest y al Vietnamese Cultural Center para dar inicio al Mes de la Conservación Latina en contacto con la naturaleza, trabajando en nuestra zona de restauración de hábitat. Eliminaremos plantas no nativas para ayudar a que las plantas ya establecidas sigan prosperando y participaremos en pruebas comunitarias de calidad del agua. Se ofrecerá almuerzo. more |
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Mulching for Fall PlantingSeptember 13, 9am-11am @ Woodland Park We will mulching a south facing hillside in preparation for planting Trees and Shrubs this fall. more |
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PRIVATE work party with Boeing ReachSeptember 13, 10am-2pm @ Burke-Gilman Trail This is a private work party for Boeing Reach more |
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September Oak Understory TendingSeptember 13, 11am-1pm @ Martha Washington Park GSP is partnering with Queer the Land (queertheland.org) to support the ongoing stewardship of this oak understory garden as a space to build community and relationships with first food plants of the Coast Salish region. All experience levels welcome! For this event we'll work on... 1) Collecting and processing seeds -- Feel free to bring baggies if you'd like to take some seeds for growing 2) Cutting down the meadow patches -- Our annual late-summer practice in place of traditional controlled burns that maintained oak-camas prairies across the northwest Please note these activities may involve bending and kneeling. There's seating on-site, but the garden isn't wheelchair-accessible. more |
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Daybreak Community & Land TendingSeptember 17, 11am-3pm @ Daybreak Star We invite you to join us in tending the land at Daybreak Star Cultural Center. These gatherings are a return—to land, to care, and to being in right relationship with one another. Guided by Indigenous leadership at the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, we come together to practice food sovereignty, cultural memory, and collective care in ways that are grounded, relational, and real. This season, we are tending the Forest Garden, a living space that supports elders, youth, and Indigenous-centered community programs while growing a future rooted in reciprocity, responsibility, and long-term care. All ages are welcome. You’re invited to come move your body, tend the land, and be in community—whether you stay for a couple of hours or the full day. Together, we’ll engage in hands-on care of the land through planting, weeding, harvesting, and seasonal projects, while also making space for connection, learning, and shared reflection. If you’re looking for a place to show up, build relationships, and grow something lasting, this is a space to gather, care for the land, and imagine what’s possible—together. All ages OK more |
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Daybreak Community & Land TendingSeptember 17, 11am-3pm @ Daybreak Star We invite you to join us in tending the land at Daybreak Star Cultural Center. These gatherings are a return—to land, to care, and to being in right relationship with one another. Guided by Indigenous leadership at the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, we come together to practice food sovereignty, cultural memory, and collective care in ways that are grounded, relational, and real. This season, we are tending the Forest Garden, a living space that supports elders, youth, and Indigenous-centered community programs while growing a future rooted in reciprocity, responsibility, and long-term care. All ages are welcome. You’re invited to come move your body, tend the land, and be in community—whether you stay for a couple of hours or the full day. Together, we’ll engage in hands-on care of the land through planting, weeding, harvesting, and seasonal projects, while also making space for connection, learning, and shared reflection. If you’re looking for a place to show up, build relationships, and grow something lasting, this is a space to gather, care for the land, and imagine what’s possible—together. All ages OK more |
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Daybreak Community & Land TendingSeptember 18, 11am-3pm @ Daybreak Star We invite you to join us in tending the land at Daybreak Star Cultural Center. These gatherings are a return—to land, to care, and to being in right relationship with one another. Guided by Indigenous leadership at the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, we come together to practice food sovereignty, cultural memory, and collective care in ways that are grounded, relational, and real. This season, we are tending the Forest Garden, a living space that supports elders, youth, and Indigenous-centered community programs while growing a future rooted in reciprocity, responsibility, and long-term care. All ages are welcome. You’re invited to come move your body, tend the land, and be in community—whether you stay for a couple of hours or the full day. Together, we’ll engage in hands-on care of the land through planting, weeding, harvesting, and seasonal projects, while also making space for connection, learning, and shared reflection. If you’re looking for a place to show up, build relationships, and grow something lasting, this is a space to gather, care for the land, and imagine what’s possible—together. All ages OK more |
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3rd Saturday forest restoration at Jackson Park Trail!September 19, 10am-2pm @ Jackson Park Golf Course Enjoy the "natural areas" along the Jackson Park golf course perimeter trail. We'll walk to a work area and continue to make progress removing invasive ivy and blackberries, planting native plants, weeding, or mulching, as the season demands! more |
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Carkeek STARS Work PartySeptember 19, 9am-12pm @ Carkeek Park Join other enthusiastic volunteers for a fun morning of forest restoration and trails maintenance. We have a wide variety of tasks you can help with. Adults and teenagers welcome. If you are a group of 5 or more contact Dale Johnson. Follow the STARS signs to our meeting place, which will be the parking lot at the Environmental Learning Center. Welcome! more |
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East Duwamish Work PartySeptember 19, 10am-12pm @ East Duwamish GS: S Chicago St Help take care of the forest along this neighborhood trail! Depending on the time of the year, we'll be pulling and removing ivy, cutting back and digging out blackberry or planting new plants; and always having a good time! more |
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Habitat Restoration and Beaver Talk on Lake Washington BlvdSeptember 19, 10am-1pm @ Lake Washington Boulevard Join the Greenway and Beavers NW to do habitat restoration and learn about how beavers can change our environments! We will have a special speaker and walk to a beaver lodge then work on removing Himalayan blackberry and English ivy. more |
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Native Rescue from Blackberry at Little Brook Natural AreaSeptember 20, 10am-12pm @ Little Brook Natural Area Summer heat has not diminished the blackberry at Little Brook Natural Area. Join us in rescuing native plantings from this tenacious invasive species that has come back with vigor. Once dug out, mulch will be laid down to give the native plants some extra protection into fall and winter. Work areas are level but tight. Note: If it is raining heavily, the event will be rescheduled. more |
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Daybreak Community & Land TendingSeptember 24, 11am-3pm @ Daybreak Star We invite you to join us in tending the land at Daybreak Star Cultural Center. These gatherings are a return—to land, to care, and to being in right relationship with one another. Guided by Indigenous leadership at the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, we come together to practice food sovereignty, cultural memory, and collective care in ways that are grounded, relational, and real. This season, we are tending the Forest Garden, a living space that supports elders, youth, and Indigenous-centered community programs while growing a future rooted in reciprocity, responsibility, and long-term care. All ages are welcome. You’re invited to come move your body, tend the land, and be in community—whether you stay for a couple of hours or the full day. Together, we’ll engage in hands-on care of the land through planting, weeding, harvesting, and seasonal projects, while also making space for connection, learning, and shared reflection. If you’re looking for a place to show up, build relationships, and grow something lasting, this is a space to gather, care for the land, and imagine what’s possible—together. All ages OK more |
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Daybreak Community & Land TendingSeptember 25, 11am-3pm @ Daybreak Star We invite you to join us in tending the land at Daybreak Star Cultural Center. These gatherings are a return—to land, to care, and to being in right relationship with one another. Guided by Indigenous leadership at the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, we come together to practice food sovereignty, cultural memory, and collective care in ways that are grounded, relational, and real. This season, we are tending the Forest Garden, a living space that supports elders, youth, and Indigenous-centered community programs while growing a future rooted in reciprocity, responsibility, and long-term care. All ages are welcome. You’re invited to come move your body, tend the land, and be in community—whether you stay for a couple of hours or the full day. Together, we’ll engage in hands-on care of the land through planting, weeding, harvesting, and seasonal projects, while also making space for connection, learning, and shared reflection. If you’re looking for a place to show up, build relationships, and grow something lasting, this is a space to gather, care for the land, and imagine what’s possible—together. All ages OK more |
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Community Printmaking with Eileen Jiminez at Seward ParkSeptember 26, 11am-1pm @ Seward Park Happy Latine Conservation Month! Join us for a morning of creating art on the land through printmaking with Eileen Jimenez! Participants will get to explore Connection to Land with pre-carved blocks and water coloring that centers land, place, and joy. Eileen Jiminez's Bio: Eileen's mother is Maria Cruz, her grandmother is Eloisa, and her great grandmother is Ysidora, matriarchs of the Ñätho (Otomi Peoples of Michoacan/Guanajuato, Mexico). As an IndigiQueer leader, community member, educator and as an artist, everything she does and creates is influenced by her many intersecting and lived experiences. Eileen uses printmaking and mixed-media techniques to develop her own ways of telling stories in the complex layers that they exist in, as well as to demonstrate the ways that we are connected to the Land and to each other. In her current body of work, she focuses on the embodiment of the divine that is manifested through our bodies and our hands specifically. In her work, you will also see her commitment to centering the stories of joy that flow through our communities. instagram: maese.art.by.eileen.jimenez website: www.eileenjimenez.com Food will be provided. ¡Feliz Mes de la Conservación Latine! ¡Acompáñanos a una mañana de creación artística en contacto con la tierra a través del grabado con Eileen Jimenez! Los participantes explorarán la conexión con la tierra utilizando bloques previamente tallados y acuarelas, en una actividad centrada en la tierra, el lugar y la alegría. Biografía de Eileen Jimenez: La madre de Eileen es Maria Cruz, su abuela es Eloisa y su bisabuela es Ysidora; todas ellas matriarcas del pueblo Ñätho (pueblo otomí de Michoacán y Guanajuato, México). Como líder, miembro de la comunidad, educadora y artista *IndigiQueer*, todo lo que hace y crea está influenciado por sus múltiples experiencias vitales y sus identidades entrelazadas. Eileen emplea técnicas de grabado y técnicas mixtas para desarrollar sus propias formas de narrar historias —respetando las complejas capas en las que estas existen— y para mostrar los vínculos que nos unen a la Tierra y entre nosotros. Su obra actual se centra en la encarnación de lo divino, manifestada específicamente a través de nuestros cuerpos y nuestras manos. En su trabajo también se refleja su compromiso de poner en primer plano las historias de alegría que fluyen por nuestras comunidades. Instagram: maese.art.by.eileen.jimenez Sitio web: www.eileenjimenez.com Se ofrecerá comida. more |
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East Duwamish Work PartySeptember 26, 10am-12pm @ East Duwamish GS: S Chicago St Help take care of the urban forest along this neighborhood trail! We'll remove ivy and blackberry plants, and start clearing space for fall planting. Connect with fellow volunteers and help improve Seattle green spaces! more |
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Forest Restoration - Longfellow Creek at GrahamSeptember 26, 10am-12:30pm @ Longfellow Creek GS: Delridge Natural Area You and your fellow volunteers will participate in hands-on conservation work. This event will be focused on removing invasive plant. more |
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Friends of Discovery Park's Day of Service 2026September 26, 10am-1pm @ Discovery Park Capehart Forest is the most wildlife-diverse area in Discovery Park. Come help us promote forest health and increase its biodiversity by weeding out invasives, mulching and aerate the soil to encourage symbiotic fungi, and plant this years native shrubs and groundcovers. more |
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Latine Conservation Month: ¡Vamos a Observar Aves!September 26, 10am-12:30pm @ Seward Park Celebrate Latine Conservation Month with a guided bird walk in the park! The walk will follow the outer loop of Seward Park, the Seward Park Loop Trail – a 2.4-mile paved path. Explore local wildlife, learn bird identification skills, and connect with others who share a passion for nature and conservation. This event welcomes birders of all experience levels and offers an opportunity to honor the rich contributions of Latine communities to environmental conservation. A Spanish-language interpreter will be present to support Spanish-speaking participants and help make the experience more accessible. Come enjoy fresh air, community, and the beauty of our local birds. 🐦🌿 ¡Celebra el Mes de la Conservación Latine con una caminata guiada de observación de aves en el parque! La caminata recorrerá el circuito exterior de Seward Park, el Sendero Seward Park Loop Trail, un camino pavimentado de 2.4 millas (3.9 km). Explora la vida silvestre local, aprende habilidades de identificación de aves y conéctate con otras personas que comparten la pasión por la naturaleza y la conservación. Este evento da la bienvenida a observadores de aves de todos los niveles de experiencia y ofrece la oportunidad de honrar las ricas contribuciones de las comunidades Latine a la conservación ambiental. Habrá un intérprete de español presente para apoyar a los participantes de habla hispana y ayudar a que la experiencia sea más accesible. Ven a disfrutar del aire fresco, la comunidad y la belleza de nuestras aves locales. 🐦🌿 more |
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Beaver Pond Natural Area SmotheringSeptember 27, 10am-12pm @ Beaver Pond Natural Area on TC Mounds of mulch need to be spread in a thick layer over a large area cleared this past summer to keep invasives from returning and to prepare for fall planting. Some removal of returning blackberry and ivy may be necessary before the smothering begins. If time permits, we will go forward again to remove more blackberry! If rainfall is heavy, event will be rescheduled. more |
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