Fresh air. Free workout. Friends. Maybe just a couple of mosquitoes... But maybe also some ephemeral spring wildflowers! Come spend a morning in a beautiful place nurturing fruiting shrubs that in turn will provide food and habitat for wildlife.

Please join us on Wednesday, May 12, 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 mulching them to help them retain moisture when the weather is dry.

Please bring a shovel, long-handed clippers, loppers, hand saws, 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 email lflaccus@chocorualake.org with your phone number to let us know you will be coming so that we can let you know of any 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.

Image: One of our stewards weeding a fruiting shrub last autumn. Photo: Lynne Flaccus