new progress

To date, our work removing invasive species has been focused on
reach 1 (from the beach at Nina's up to Morningside Drive) and
reach 2 (Morningside Park, between Morningside Drive and Shores Drive). 
Today we made our first foray into reach 3,
where the creek flows through the RDN GNPCC property. 
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The mouth of the culvert upstream of Shores Drive is completely overgrown with invasive Himalayan blackberry, as most disturbed, sunny spots are.  We used loppers and pickaxes to chop down the canes and dig out the roots, filling a large bin and opening up the space.  The plan is to mulch heavily with wood chips and plant quick-growing successional species - red osier dogwood and big leaf maple, followed by later succession species like Cedar and fir, either seeded from local species or planted intentionally.