Trail Creek Park Restoration Project

Hello everyone, Hope you all are having a great new year. I apologize for the lack of activity, but we are excited to get to work in 2018. To that end, I wanted to invite you all to join us on MLK Day for a Day of Service project for some trail building and invasives removal at Stroud Elementary School. More information about the Day of Service and the project at Stroud can be found here:https://uga.givepulse.com/event/65432-H.B.-Stroud-Elementary-School-Nature-Trail-Restoration. If you can't make it, we will be returning both to this site and our sites in the park in the coming weeks. Look forward to seeing everyone and killing some weeds.

H.B. Stroud Elementary School Nature Trail Restoration - Athens MLK Day of Service | Engage Georgia

We took out a huge chunk of privet yesterday! Love the views we are opening up to the creek. Thanks to everyone who came out to help!

We will NOT be having a workday this Sunday, May 28th due to the holiday weekend.

The unnamed creek we've been working on is looking much, much healthier. Most of our live stakes have survived! Also, the eroding banks are starting to grown in. Thanks to all our volunteers who continue to come out and heal this little piece of earth.

Workday! This Sunday! Come out and help us work on building soil life with hugel beds and invasive removal 🌱🐛

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At last, here is the link to the Ecosystem Inventory from the March Workday! Volunteers captured OVER 50 species! Yay biodiversity!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16zbenrwADlc9CcXVaxfHUiVnwKwoWHmRcxmPk2GbQ1s/edit?usp=sharing

The elder stakes we planted during the last workday are swelling and budding out! Looks like almost all of the stakes are alive and safe! Come out Sunday to see for yourself 🌱

Nine volunteers came out to plant 170 elderberry stakes, top off the hugel beds with compost, and remove privet.

Athens-Clarke County Trails and Open Space staff spent the afternoon harvesting elderberry cuttings for the workday on Sunday. 170 'stakes' were created which will be planted into the creek beds. Join us Sunday to help!

Prescribed grazing is a technique used to control invasive plant species. The animals eat the foliage of the plants, therby exhausting them of their energy. Usually, the area must be grazed multiple times on a specific schedule to ensure all energy stored in the plant roots is exhausted. We've got sheep from Sheepswork over at the park working on a 1/2 acre section of English Ivy and Chinese Privet - they will be around until 2/13, come check them out!

The sheep have landed at Trail Creek Park! 25 sheep from Sheepswork have been called upon for a prescribed grazing demonstration at the Trail Creek Street Greenway trailhead (right by the Gravel Triangle for you bikers). They will be here eating ivy and privet for the next two weeks - come check em out! BEWARE - their fencing is electric - don't touch!

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30 volunteers came out to remove privet along a creek in the Trail Creek watershed.

Photos from 6 months-post initial privet removal.