A little “heads up” about our annual Boeing Creek Restoration Event this Saturday, April 26 from 10-1:30.  Please consider joining me and other staff/faculty, students and community members in battling Evil Ivy and her menacing minions, including Heinous Holly, Stinky Bob and Churlish Cherry.  Our continual battle with these formidable foes is to be waged in the forest between the track and the dog park.  With luck, and a bit of honest work, we should be able to gain significant ground in this War of the Weeds and bring in a significant show of leaves by planting native plants and establishing a “Safe Plant Zone”.  Please see the attached flyer for the specific details re: the event.

We are also seeking native plant recruits.  If any of you have native plants on your property that you might be able to recruit for planting in this forest, please let me know.  The habitat is a dry forest understory with an established canopy.  Appropriate plants would include: cascara, wild rose, red huckleberry, serviceberry (Amelanchier), salal, Oregon grape, Indian plum, hazelnut, trailing blackberry (the native), orange honeysuckle, foamflower (Tiarella), wood sorrel (Oxalis), vine or big leaf maple and others.  If you have a candidate that is not on the list, please feel free to email me (mloper@shoreline.edu) or call me (546-4683).  Feel free to stop by any time, and leave whenever you need to.  I know Marty’s memorial is at 2 PM.  We’ll be pulling weeds from 10-12, and planting plants from about 12-1:30

Hope to see you Saturday!

Matt Loper