Community Service Day
Saturday, October 24th, 2009
Forest Reforestation
at Rachel Carson Conservation Park
Save the Trees Events
Community Service Day is one day set aside for Montgomery County's community members to come together to volunteer and make a difference in our community. For more information contact: Lynette.Scaffidi@montgomeryparks.org or 301-949-0223
Forest Restoration at Rachel Carson Conservation Park
8am to11am. Meet in the gravel parking lot at off Zion Road - 22201 Zion Road, Brookeville, MD 20833. Bring your shovels (with your name on it) or borrow ours. We will provide gloves. - map
Rachel Carson Conservation Park is one of the county's premier conservation areas, with more than 6 miles of natural surface trails and the beautiful Hawlings River meandering through the park. Unfortunately the park’s native trees and plants are threatened by invasive plants. Montgomery County Park’s Staff has worked for several years trying to save the many trees of Rachel Carson’s woodlands. Contractors manually removed invasive vines, and park staff bush-hogged the invasive plants. Thankfully, many trees were saved – but not all of them. After years of invasive removal work, Montgomery Parks is now in the process of reforesting areas where we were not able to save the trees.
Be part of the great effort to restore Rachel Carson Conservation Park’s natural heritage. Join us as we plant native trees and ferns in the areas where the original trees lost the battle with the invasive plants.
Save the Trees Events
Maydale Nature Center Park
9:30am to 12 noon. Meet in the parking lot to Maydale Nature Center – 1638 Maydale Drive, Silver Spring, MD 20905. Bring gloves, pruners, saws and loppers or borrow ours. - park info
Join Councilwoman Nancy Navarro and Montgomery County Park Rangers as we manually remove the invasive plants and save the trees!
Maydale Nature Center is a 14 acre oasis tucked into a community that truly loves their park. The park offers a small fishing pond, wetlands, deciduous and pine forests along a pristine portion of the Paint Branch Stream Valley. Unfortunately, the native trees and plants are threatened by invasive plants. You can be part of the great community effort to care about this wonderful park.
Little Falls Stream Valley Park
8am to 10am. Meet in the gravel parking lot at the intersection of Little Falls Parkway and Massachusetts Ave. Bring gloves, pruners, saws and lopper or borrow ours. Held rain or shine!
Join Senator Brian Frosh and Montgomery Park’s Certified Weed Warrior Supervisors, Lynnwood Andrews and Suzanne Richman, as we manually remove the invasive vines from trees along this stream valley park. English ivy vines cover the trees, slowly killing the trees from the base upwards. The vines also harbor a bacterial leaf scorch that affects a wide variety of native and ornamental trees. Other invasive vines completely engulf the trees, shading them out and overburdening them with added weight, causing the trees to topple. Help us save them!! Co-sponsored by Montgomery County Parks and the Little Falls Watershed Alliance.
Date of last update: October 16, 2009
Montgomery County Department of Parks