For the Reporter
Sierra Club South King County Group and Rainier Audubon Society, in coordination with King County Parks, host a large habitat restoration event at Soos Creek Park from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, April 11.
Volunteers are asked to meet at Gary Grant Park in Kent, on the north side of 208th Street and east of 132nd Street. To reach the work site, volunteers can walk a few hundred yards on the trail south of the 208th Street parking lot.
Crews will work an area that has been infested with invasive non-native plants such as blackberries and scotch broom. Over the last several years, volunteers have cleared the invasion and replanted with native species.
The focus of the event will be to spread mulch around native plantings and root out newly rebounding populations of invasives (mostly blackberries) to assure the site continues to recover.
Volunteers will be asked to sign a couple of liability release forms when they arrive. Tools, drinks and snacks will be provided, but please bring work gloves and dress for the work and weather.
For more information, please contact Mark Johnston at s697striata@frontier.com.
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