Seattle's all-volunteer annual park clean-up is back this year with volunteers removing invasive plant species, cleaning waterways and beaches, and rebuilding trails.
Calling all volunteers: 200 needed to help us care for Seattle’s Golden Gardens park. Come out and have fun and make a difference in your community! We'll have coffee and snacks in the morning and then tackle some of the bigger projects that need to be taken care of in Golden Gardens.
Meet EarthShare member group EarthCorps and find out how you can volunteer year-round in fun activities with a big impact on our parks, forests, streams and trails. Their work crews will be leading us in all the activities planned for the day.
- with plenty of opportunities for the kids to get involved.
- Business leaders can recruit employee teams for a great day of giving back.
What: Volunteers will remove invasive plant species, clean up beaches, and rebuild trails at Seattle area park. When: May 16, 2009. Park clean-up will start at 10:00 a.m. and end between 1:30 and 2:00 p.m. Registration starts at 9:30 a.m. Where: Golden Gardens Park. |
If your business is interested in supporting Day in the Park’s community volunteers by providing food, drinks, or other volunteer gifts, contact us at 206-622-9840.
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in our annual Day in the Park.
Day in the Park 2009 will be a continuation of Seattle’s all-volunteer annual park cleanup that has taken palce over the past five years.
While it is widely recognized that the city’s urban forests are increasingly under threat from invasive species, no long-term solutions have been put in place. Ivy is the biggest threat for 2,500 acres of Seattle’s parks—it chokes trees, and prevents them from reseeding. Without intervention, we will see these forests decline. This year’s Day in the Park event will mobilize volunteers to meet this problem head-on.
Each year EarthShare Washington invites hundreds of volunteers to help clean up one (or in some years, several) of Seattle’s parks. Families, local businesses, community groups, government agencies and environmental organizations get their hands dirty together and give back to our city’s green spaces. Volunteers will remove invasive weeds and plants, clean up beaches, and rebuild hiking trails.
Families, corporate work teams, church organizations, civic clubs, and everyone else are invited to participate in the 2009 Day in the Park. To learn more, please all 206-622-9840 or email info@esw.org. Find out information about conservation and other environmental topics at the Earth Share website, www.esw.org.