3.5 hours
Wednesday, March 30
Today we did the same work we had done for the past two sessions, but we moved on from a cleared strip of invasive plants to a large block. The past two times we came, we had increased our efficiency by more than I could have imagined, so today in order to maximize our time there, I set an extremely unrealistic goal for us. I said, "Let's aim to clear the area until that line." I knew we could never do it, but I figured we could get a lot more done than we thought if we worked diligently toward such a goal.
Turns out, we ended up clearing it all. I was amazed. We were too exhausted to plant new plants and mulch the area, but we'll do that next time. When we were done, as we were heading back into the middle of the native plant area to put our tools back, I was surprised to spot some invasive daisies sticking out near native plants. I pulled these out, only to find more. Adam and I ended up spending ten minutes weeding these daisies before realizing we couldn't do it all today.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Garden!
2 hours
Sunday, March 13
Today was an awesome day. We met a new guy, David, who volunteers for PaR. He showed su a shed full of old garden tools and we brought them all over to a closed-off native plant rehabilitation area. The native plant area was begun five years ago and it slowly expanded from there. Now it's a large, roped-off section in the middle of a large area. When we go into it, I can finally see what the park might have looked like with all native species. It smells amazing, and there are beautiful desert and plains plants all over. It looks so wild.
Our job today was to expand the area outward a couple feet. We cleared an area about 10 feet long by two feet wide of invasive plants (which was hard work), planted some native plants, and mulched the rest of the cleared area. Then David moved the rope fence outward to close the area we had started restoring. I was really proud of our work for the day.
Sunday, March 13
Today was an awesome day. We met a new guy, David, who volunteers for PaR. He showed su a shed full of old garden tools and we brought them all over to a closed-off native plant rehabilitation area. The native plant area was begun five years ago and it slowly expanded from there. Now it's a large, roped-off section in the middle of a large area. When we go into it, I can finally see what the park might have looked like with all native species. It smells amazing, and there are beautiful desert and plains plants all over. It looks so wild.
Our job today was to expand the area outward a couple feet. We cleared an area about 10 feet long by two feet wide of invasive plants (which was hard work), planted some native plants, and mulched the rest of the cleared area. Then David moved the rope fence outward to close the area we had started restoring. I was really proud of our work for the day.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Acacia
2.5 hours
Saturday, March 5
Today Adam and I went back to Sunset Cliffs Natural Park and continued trimming back the acacias. We piled huge branches on top of each other near a canyon and, when we decided there was nothing else we could do with just shears, we hauled all the branches into a large canyon below where they could decompose. When we got back to the path, our two sets of shears were gone! We looked all over and finally concluded that someone had taken them. Too bad. They were brand new and everything.
Saturday, March 5
Today Adam and I went back to Sunset Cliffs Natural Park and continued trimming back the acacias. We piled huge branches on top of each other near a canyon and, when we decided there was nothing else we could do with just shears, we hauled all the branches into a large canyon below where they could decompose. When we got back to the path, our two sets of shears were gone! We looked all over and finally concluded that someone had taken them. Too bad. They were brand new and everything.
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