Nature Blog

Today the work party focused on erosion, fabricating, and live staking. Erosion is the removal of solids from a natural environment via weather. For example, when it rains on a slope, the water turns the dirt into mud. Then, as a result of gravity, everything on the slope gets pulled down the hill. This is…

Today we started on the last leg of the restoration of the Longfellow Creek Legacy Trail. We were joined on our first day by a fleet of 7th graders from University Prep. Our work was cut out for us: the piece of property we worked on was abundant in large untamed Himalayan blackberry and fields…

Today was a beautiful day. We began the day by removing invasive Himalayan blackberry and we removed a total of 6414 sq ft of blackberry. We also removed Evergreen blackberry farther up the hill. While we were working we listened to Amy Denio on the clarinet. Once we finished maintaining an area we were able…

We had a pretty good sized group for planting today. The red flags in the picture were placed to indicate where to plant the bare root conifers. To plant these trees, we use a tool called a dibble to make the hole. Holes dug for bare root Indian plum, which we also planted today, only…

Today we worked with private contractors hired by the City of Seattle to help finish the slope we started with EarthCorps. We committed our entire day to planting. All in all we got 81 plants and trees in the ground: 25 hazelnut, 8 Oregon ash, 15 salal, 6 Douglas fir, 4 vine maple, 6 lady…

We started the day with invasive removal, and we were able to remove 600 sq ft of invasive Himalayan blackberry. While we were working, we listened to Marc Smason on the trumpet. After the blackberry removal, we moved on to sheet mulching. We were able to sheet mulch 300 sq ft. Once we finished mulching,…