Dear Greenbelt Fans,

Stan Ostrum and I just walked the greenbelt trail following the rains, and determined, with John Cook?s agreement, that we would cause more harm than good by proceeding with our work day tomorrow. It’s soggy, and we definitely don’t want deep ruts in our newly refurbished trail!

So, we are rescheduling the trail work day to Saturday, March 4, 9:00 – 2:00, at Gus Fruh Trail, 2642 Barton Hills Drive. I sure hope that the folks who so generously signed up for this work day will be able to work that into your calendars – and that even more of you who had schedule conflicts will be able to join us. We’re avid to complete a couple of the construction projects that we started, and of course, we don’t want the invasive species to have too much more lead time on us.

Please RSVP to me if you will be able to come out on March 4, and I will begin a new roster. Thanks,

Glee Ingram
Greenbelt Guardian Coordinator
443-7522

9:00 – 2:00 at the Gus Fruh Trail, 2642 Barton Hills Drive.

Time to gather together to come to the aid of the Greenbelt again. The creek hasn’t risen, despite our rain dances, so we will return to our work building a sturdier stone retaining wall at the creek’s edge, by the big swimming hole. We are also creating a longer term solution to keeping vegetative growth off of the entry trail, by mortaring the native rocks in place. We need to make a small improvement to our new trail drainage system, by creating one more drain swale across the trail. Since we have had enough rain to soften the soil, we will get the weed wrenches out again and go after the Nandina and small Ligustrums and Chinaberries on the lower part of the trail along the creek side. As always, there is trash pick up. And we can spread some of the seed we have collected in the areas that have been cleared of the invasive growth.

We have had some awesome “winter” weather – so let’s all visualize some more slow soaking rain, followed by more of this glorious sunshine for our work day. We hope to see many of our good neighbors at this hard-working, fun-filled event! You need to wear good work shoes & long pants & long sleeves, and bring your own water bottle. We provide water & energy drinks & energy bars & poison ivy lotion & lunch.

Please RSVP to me so we can get a good count for supplies and materials. Thanks so much for your participation and support.

Glee Ingram
Greenbelt Guardian Coordinator