Watershed Wide Event

The 1st Annual Tryon Creek Watershed Wide Event
	SATURDAY, April 24, 2010 Work Parties: 9 AM - noon Lunch: 12:30 PM - 2 PM (RSVP required) Hosted volunteer appreciation lunch will be held at Tryon Creek State Park. Work parties will be located throughout the watershed (see below for locations) REGISTER BELOW! click image on the left for full size map
Join your friends and neighbors for the first annual Tryon Creek Watershed Wide Event, a day of hands-on restoration and celebration throughout the Tryon Creek watershed. Volunteers will remove invasive species and/or planting native trees and shrubs as part of continuing efforts to improve habitat in Tryon Creek for threatened steelhead and salmon. Afterwards, volunteers are invited to an appreciation lunch at Tryon Creek State Park (RSVP required). REGISTRATION REQUIRED: to register, send an e-mail to tcwc@tryonfriends.org or call 503.636.4398, Ext. 121 indicating how many are in your group, what site you'd like to volunteer at (choose from below), and if you will be attending the Volunteer Appreciation Lunch afterwards.

*-Volunteer Work Party Sites- Garlic Mustard Pull* SW Lancaster Rd. & SW Stephenson St. - Garlic mustard pull along roadsides in the Arnold Creek neighborhood. Due to roadside working conditions, adults only please. Deer Creek 9114 SW Trail Ct. - Ivy and Clematis removal and native planting at a streamside property along Deer Creek, an important headwater tributary to Tryon Creek. Goff site 11000 SW Boones Ferry Rd. - Invasive species removal on a piece of streamside property along the main stem of Tryon Creek. Lewis & Clark College SW Boones Ferry Rd. & SW Terwilliger Blvd. - Invasive species removal and mulching native plants on forested property just off the Lewis and Clark bike path. Marshall Park SW 12th Dr. entrance to Marshall Park - Ivy removal as part of a larger project to close a demand trail along the edge of Tryon Creek in the forests of Marshall Park. SW 4th Avenue 10744 SW 4th Ave. - Ivy removal and native planting at a forested property along the edge of Tryon Creek State Park near Lewis and Clark College. St Nicholas Church wetlands 2210 SW Dolph Ct. - Invasive species removal and mulching native plants at a small wetland property in Tryon Creek’s upper watershed. Tryon Creek State Park 11321 SW Terwilliger Blvd. - Ivy removal in the forests of Tryon Creek State Park. Nettle Creek SW Boca Ratan Dr. & Atwater Rd., Lake Oswego, OR - Invasive species removal on a piece of streamside property along Nettle Creek, Lake Oswego’s largest tributary to Tryon Creek. West Portland Park Natural Area SW 35th Ave. & SW Arnold St. - Ivy removal on a newly acquired Portland Parks/Metro property at the headwaters of Tryon Creek’s largest tributary, Arnold Creek.

The 1st Annual Tryon Creek Watershed Wide Event is made possible through a grant from Southwest Neighborhoods, Inc. (SWNI).

Event partners include West Multnomah Soil and Water Conservation District, Friends of Tryon Creek State Park, City of Lake Oswego, SOLV, Portland Parks and Recreation, Three Rivers Land Conservancy, Hands On Greater Portland, and several neighborhood organizations.

The 1st Annual Tryon Creek Watershed Wide Event

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