Park Volunteers

Meet at the trail entrance on the west side of the Zoo Maintenance buildings on North Animal Loop Rd.

Join us to take back the trailside from nonnative blackberries and set the native berries free. We'll work in this sunny stretch of trail to free up native salmonberry and huckleberry in this favorite birding spot and entrance trail to our beautiful forest.

This site is stewarded by local botanist Romey Haberle. In May, we will split our time between weeding out blackberry seedlings, moving wood chips, and heading up trail to pull nonnative foxglove that are shading out native plant seedlings.  We will do some plant ID of native trees and shrubs and wildflowers as they leaf out and flower and check on the progress of our planting from last fall.

This opportunity is best for ages 12+ because we will mostly be working with blackberries and those bite back!

Tools and gloves provided but please dress appropriately.