Registration is now open!
By Kris Day
Join the Rock Creek Partnership on Saturday, March 16 in Happy Valley for its second annual Watershed Wide Event! We’ll be removing invasive vegetation and planting native trees and shrubs at three streamside sites to help improve the water quality in the Rock Creek basin in Clackamas County, and we’d love your help. No experience is necessary, and we welcome families, neighbors and friends!
Just like last year, we’ll stage the event out of the Galaxy Barn at Pendarvis Farm, home of the renowned Pickathon Music Festival. There will be live music, a bevy of breakfast and lunch goodies, and raffle prizes from REI! The event will begin promptly at 9:00 am, so we ask everyone to arrive by 8:45 am to get registered and assigned to a crew, as well as to enjoy hot coffee and breakfast treats. We’ll then split up and branch out to this year’s planting sites and get to work. Afterward, all planters will receive free lunch back at the Farm, with the event wrapping up about 1:00 pm.
This is a popular event and space is limited. Please save your space by filling out this online form: Rock Creek Watershed Wide Event 2013
This year’s work parties will continue the great work accomplished by volunteers at last year’s event. We will plant over 1,500 native trees and shrubs at the same three sites, all within a mile of the Pendarvis Farm. Transportation will be provided to and from each project site.
Rock Creek is an important tributary of the Clackamas River, which provides high quality drinking water to more than 300,000 people and provides critical habitat for many sensitive species of plants, fish and wildlife. The Rock Creek Partnership works with landowners to revitalize streamside habitats by removing invasive species, such as blackberry and ivy, and replanting the areas with native vegetation. Restoring native plant communities provides shade to keep creeks cool, provides wildlife habitat, helps filter drinking water, and increases property values.
We hope you’ll join us. Pre-register today!
–Day is Neighborhood Trees & Green Space Initiative Senior Specialist for Friends of Trees.
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The Rock Creek Partnership was formed in 2011 and is a collaboration between the Clackamas River Basin Council, Friends of Trees and SOLVE, and is supported with funding from Clackamas County Water Environment Services, on behalf of Clackamas Service District No. 1.