June 2, 2023
This rainy week was filled with activities that can be done while wet. We started off the week with two stream assessments and both teams got a little soggy, but managed to get back before the worst of the rain. That afternoon the team kicked off a few days of tree planting by putting in 24 trees at Linden Hill Pond. Then, Nicole and Matt spent the evening with some froggy friends-maybe you’ve heard the spring peepers around? While no spring peepers were spotted they were certainly heard and a lovely leopard frog came out to visit!
Tuesday the team spent hauling benches, platforms, and woodchips to the outdoor classroom at the Daryl Guignion Memorial Park. It is looking wonderful for the opening on June 20th! Many thanks to (NAMES) for building the platform and benches–we were all blown away by how nice they looked. An order of trees arrived that morning as well, and Nicole, Romy, and Catherine split off to unload the truck. A veritable sea of trees was established in Brenda’s driveway.
On Wednesday we continued this week’s pattern of planting trees after sorting them all out for those people who ordered trees this round. We grabbed the flood-tolerant species and conveyed them to Linden Hill Pond where we planted them in the upper part of the floodplain. We also spent a few minutes weeding the pollinator garden in the drizzle and listening to the spring peepers. The afternoon was spent checking the estuary and moving more trees to their planting spot in preparation for Thursday.
Thursday we continued the week’s theme of planting trees and shrubs with 97 more planted in the DeSable riparian zone. The afternoon was spent preparing the office for the next week as Friday was set aside for the last stream assessments of the season!
With the clearing up of the weather, it was nice to get out again.
Salut from all of our trees and us!
Love, SSWA
