Register now :: Set the stage for a healthy Rock Creek!
By Ian Bonham
On Saturday March 15th, join us as we set the stage for a healthier Rock Creek during our third annual watershed-wide restoration event! Help remove invasive vegetation and replant with native trees and shrubs at three stream-side sites in the Rock Creek watershed.
We’ll be meeting at the home of the Pickathon Music Festival – the Galaxy Barn at Pendarvis Farm – nestled in the Rock Creek watershed. Enjoy live music and free breakfast treats, all while doing great work to improve water quality in the Rock Creek basin with neighbors, friends, family and coworkers!
This annual event is always popular and space is limited. Please save your space by filling out this online form:
» Sign-up here for the Rock Creek Watershed Event
The event will begin promptly at 9:00am, so we ask for everyone to arrive by 8:45am to the Galaxy Barn to get registered and assigned to a crew, as well as to enjoy hot coffee, live music, raffle prizes and breakfast treats.
Together we will plant over 1,500 native trees and shrubs at three sites, all within a mile of the Pendarvis Farm. Transportation will be provided between the Galaxy Barn and each project site. The planting will wrap up around 1:00pm.
The Rock Creek Partnership works with landowners to revitalize streamside habitats by removing invasive species, such as blackberry and ivy, and replant sensitive areas with native vegetation. Restoring native plant communities along Rock Creek – an important tributary of the Clackamas River – helps to filter drinking water for more than 300,000 people and provide critical habitat to many sensitive species of plants, fish and wildlife.
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.
We hope to work with you – but don’t forget to pre-register!
– Ian is the Volunteer & Outreach Specialist with Friends of Trees