{"id":2517,"date":"2012-10-12T17:25:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T21:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenprovidencepark.org\/?p=2517"},"modified":"2012-10-12T17:25:20","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T21:25:20","slug":"another-successful-national-public-lands-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenprovidencepark.org\/2012\/10\/12\/another-successful-national-public-lands-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Another successful National Public Lands Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"

One year ago, Friends of Glen Providence Park chose National Public Lands Day (NPLD) for our first event<\/a>: a volunteer day cleaning up the park and clearing the historical stage of vegetation and debris.\u00a0 This year on September 29 we participated in NPLD again,<\/strong> doing trail maintenance and park clean-up.\u00a0 It was our fifth public volunteer day in the past year,<\/strong> in addition to smaller work days we have conducted.<\/p>\n

One of the great things about our volunteer events is the wonderful people we meet!<\/strong>\u00a0 We always have fun working in the park, but we know our volunteers do too when they actually email us afterwards to say that they enjoyed it, as two people we met on NPLD did!\u00a0 Maybe the delicious coffee from Seven Stones Cafe<\/a> helped…<\/p>\n

We worked on clearing invasive plants-\u00a0we removed 12 (packed and heavy!) bags of invasives from the Shingle Mill Trail.<\/strong>\u00a0 We got a helpful hand from Bill O’Donnell<\/a>, a board member of\u00a0Delaware County Parks & Recreation<\/strong> and long-time volunteer in the park, who arrived with a machete-like tool to make some serious progress against invasive Multi-flora rose!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the pond, we thinned the Duckweed & Watermeal <\/strong>that is covering the surface.\u00a0 Groups of volunteers picked up 3 bags of trash from along the trails.<\/strong>\u00a0 Another group of volunteers beautifully weeded our Earth Day Plantings<\/strong> from this April- really showing off the beautiful Winterberries!<\/strong>\u00a0 The birds are going to love eating those berries in a few months.<\/p>\n

It was rewarding, fulfilling, and fun.\u00a0 Thank you so much to the (at least) 13 adults and 7 children who volunteered!<\/p>\n

Scroll through our pictures below! \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\t\t