Pictured below are five of our regular Newhall volunteers supplemented by ten hardy volunteers who joined us for the local Rotary Club “Day of Service.” Not pictured is photo-shy photographer, Co-Chair Bob Clemens. The weather was fantastic, and we accomplished a great deal to prepare the Preserve for the Spring Vacationers.
One Rotary crew hauled crushed limestone from the parking lot to cover the area around two of our interpretative panels, as shown in the second photo below. More limestone was then added to the West end of the Newhall trail to level a “dip” where the trail transitions from stone to bare ground.
Another team, led by Vice-Chair Matt Mattoon, dug a new trench for the air lines to the pond aeration system, and then removed sections of a huge log that had fallen in the Pine flat woods.
Vice-Chair Lynn Hodgson led a crew to cull unwanted vegetation from among the Long Leaf pines, and the same crew then spread pine bark nuggets on the paths in the parking lot pollinator garden.
Finally, our Rotary volunteers trimmed vegetation on the Branch Wood, South Woods and North Woods trails! When all was done, we had a huge pile of brush to be hauled away by Sea Pines CSA.
Thank you Rotarians!
Our next Newhall Work Day will be on Saturday April 13th, from 8:30 to 10 AM.
RSVPs are not necessary, but appreciated, to rclemens318@gmail.com