140 volunteers will be cleaning up Golden Gardens tomorrow in honor of Earth Day. Pictured here: two volunteers at work in Kiwanis Ravine at a clean up event last year.
In honor of Earth Day, EarthCorps will lead 140 volunteers to clean up Golden Gardens on Saturday, April 23rd.
In addition, Earth Day's central event is to restore the West Duwamish Greenbelt, the largest contiguous greenbelt in Seattle. Starting off at 10 a.m. today, volunteers will be removing English ivy, blackberry and other aggressive, non-native plant species that threaten the diversity of our urban forests.
At Golden Gardens on Saturday, EarthCorps and the Green Seattle Partnership will collaborate to perform maintenance on past restoration sites and remove invasive plant species such as English ivy. The invasive plant is crowding out native trees and shrubs and making the survival of native seedlings difficult.
Volunteers may sign up online at www.earthcorps.org or show up on Saturday at 10 a.m. An EarthCorps table will be locate din the upper parking lot.
