Palouse River Cleanup & Native Plant Walk Maintenance Day - 8/27/11

Palouse Conservation District and the City of Palouse will conduct a stream cleanup and do site maintenance at the Palouse Native Plant Walk with the help of volunteers on Saturday, August 27, 2011. 

This project is part of American Rivers’ National River Cleanup™.  Join thousands of volunteers across the country in protecting up our most precious natural resource.

All are welcome.  Volunteers should meet at 9:00 am at Hayton Green Park.

A celebration BBQ and sign unveiling for the Palouse Native Plant Walk will be held at 1:00 pm.

 Email or call Jennifer Boie, 332-4101, for more information.

More volunteer opportunities will be available throughout the summer.  We have dozens of restoration sites that need watering, weeding and general maintenance work.

Please contact Jennifer Boie or John Celley at 509-332-4101 if you would like more information about volunteering with PCD.

 

WSU students can sign up for volunteer events through the Center for Civic Engagement.

 

Thank You, 2011 Volunteers!

 PCD volunteers have been hard at work in and around Pullman.  Here are a few of their accomplishments: 

• 5075 plants planted in local restoration sites

• Dozens of bluebird and bat houses constructed

• Countless tree tubes installed, repaired or removed

• Plants prepared and sorted for the surplus tree sale

• Several tons of weed mat fabric removed along the Chipman Trail

• 300+ dogwood cuttings collected and prepared for use at planting sites

• Hundreds of plants watered

• Drip irrigation system installed and weeds pulled at Animal Haven

 

Many thanks to the following partners for providing volunteers, projects and support this year:

• WSU Center for Civic Engagement

• UI Sustainability Center

• UI Center for Volunteerism and Social Action

• Whitman County Community Action Center

• US Fish and Wildlife Service

• Whitman County Parks

• Pullman Transit

• WA Department of Transportation

• Cheryl & Larry Morgan

• Linda Jovanovich

• Joan & Ray Folwell

• Port of Whitman County

• Palouse Discovery Science Center

• Palouse Prairie Foundation