Interested in planting native trees and shrubs? Meeting some neat people? Or obtaining a few service learning hours? Then join us at Pendarvis Farm in Damascus on Saturday, March 15th!
Join the Rock Creek Partnership on Saturday, March 15th in Happy Valley for its third annual Watershed Wide Event! We’ll be removing invasive vegetation, mulching, and planting native trees and shrubs at three streamside sites to help improve the water quality in the Rock Creek basin -- and we’d love your help! No experience is necessary and we welcome families, neighbors, and friends!
This is a popular event and space is limited. Please save your space by filling out this online form: Rock Creek Watershed Wide Event 2014
There will be live music, a delicious variety of breakfast and lunch provided to volunteers, and raffle prizes! The staging site will once again be the Galaxy Barn at Pendarvis Farm - site of the renowned Pickathon Music Festival. The event will begin promptly at 9:00am, so we ask for everyone to arrive by 8:45am to the staging site to get registered and assigned to a crew, as well as to enjoy hot coffee and breakfast treats. The event will wrap-up around 1:00pm.
Rock Creek is an important tributary of the Clackamas River, which provides high quality drinking water to more than 300,000 people and provides critical habitat for many sensitive species of plants, fish and wildlife.
The Rock Creek Partnership works with landowners to revitalize streamside habitats by removing invasive species, such as blackberry and ivy, and replanting the areas with native vegetation. Restoring native plant communities grows a canopy over our creeks, which filters drinking water, provides wildlife habitat, and increases property value.
