MLK Day — A day of Service
It started out as a foggy day, but by then end of it the sun shone through just like our efforts. We had a whopping 122 people out at our MLK day event. People were really in the spirit of service and came prepared to volunteer. Thank you again to everyone who participated and made our event a success. As people showed up, we roped them into the greenbelt with a brief history and orientation. Then we had all kinds of activities going on. We split our groups up into cutting, digging, mulching, and planting. Everyone had the chance to move around all day and try everything out. We even had a bucket brigade going with the mulching. Thank you Ben Yarges for coming and playing your shakuhachi (also thank you Amy Denio and Jim Knodle). Here’s what we accomplished:
We planted 150 Doug firs and 225 salal. We placed down 60 mulch rings, removed 1,000 sq ft of Scotch broom on the west side of the trail, cut and grubbed 5,400 sq ft of first growth blackberry, maintained 3,620 sq ft of blackberry, and mulched 4,491 sq ft.
