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Today was a good sized group and the weather turned out for the better. The picture to the right shows one of our volunteers engaging in removing Scotch broom with weed wrenches. We use these wrenches quite a bit when dealing with Scotch broom, because they are best for tough jobs. The wrench has a vice-like head at the bottom which holds the base of the plant. As you push down on the handle, it rips the plant out of the ground, root and all. We removed 1575 sq.ft. of Scotch broom and continued onto planting.

We were joined by musicians Marc Smason and Ben Yarges who played a brass ensemble and the shakuhachi (Japanese flute). By the end of the work party, 316 native understory/trees went into the ground: 41 salal, 19 bare root vine maple, 20 bare root Gary oak, 62 bare root red flowering currant, 54 bare root nutka rose, 18 oregon ash, 39 bare root tall Oregon grape, 27 vine maple, and 36 Doug fir.