Events
Earth Corps Summer Parks Corps
Effort Held at Thistle Site in July 2007
Report submitted by Kirsten Rohrbach, Creek Steward
EarthCorps held their Summer Parks Corps program for youth, ages 13-17, at the Thistle Street Green Space during the month of July. This is the second year in a row that Thistle has been graced with the assistance of Summer Parks Corps. With the help of an Aquatic Habitat Matching Grant from the City of Seattle and funds provided by the Cascade Land Conservancy through the Green Seattle Partnership, EarthCorps is leading the youth to restore the riparian zone next to the creek. This work is critical to providing native plant species to shade and cool the creek, as well as to attract food sources such as insects for the animals living in and around the creek.
This year’s Summer Parks Corps crew had great spirit, a great attitude, and were hard workers to boot! EarthCorps interns Tamara Montes, Kevin Bodle, and Bob Stinson guided the youth. Using a vegetation plan provided by King Conservation District, they freed many of the existing native plantings along the creek from invasive Himalayan blackberry. After that, Summer Parks Corps continued clearing blackberry from and mulching an area of several thousand square feet. All of this area will be planted with native trees, especially long-lived conifers, as part of the Green Seattle Partnership’s efforts to restore Seattle’s forestlands.
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