Fresh air! Free workout! Friends! Come spend a morning in a beautiful place stewarding land with us.

Please join us on Thursday, September 24, 9-11:30AM, for a Stewardship Day at Moose Meadows, right off of Route 16 across from the quilt shop and just south of Monkey Trunks. We’ll be weeding around fruiting shrubs we’ve planted there to improve habitat for wildlife, and working to eradicate invasive species, especially buckthorn, so both cutting down and digging up are on the schedule.

Please bring a shovel, long-handed clippers, a brush cutter, or other tools, if you are able, as well as work gloves and a mask. We’ll work far enough apart to allow for social distancing, but close enough to have a conversation when needed. Be prepared for bugs and ticks just in case. We’ll meet at the entrance to the field, across from the quilt shop—you can pull into the field by the tree with CLC and NRCS signs on it.

Feel free to come for all or some of the morning. Please call ahead at 323-6252, or email lflaccus@chocorualake.org to let us know you will be coming so that we can let you know of any added safety precautions or changes in the schedule.

Naturalist Lynne Flaccus has 30 years of experience in land conservation and stewardship, managing protected properties, studying wildlife, and educating adults and children.

Banner: Swaths of goldenrod grace the fields at Moose Meadows. Photo: Juno Lamb