Saturday December 14th  Workday at Audubon Newhall Preserve

An “Intrepid Ten” Newhall Volunteers were blessed with great weather for the December work day!  From left to right in the photo above are committee member David Buzzard, Sal Gioia, Ingrid Braun, Jim Reynolds, Denise Prichard, Linda Yeomans, John Grobe, Kathleen Shea Kettel, Rosemary Staples, and committee member Julia Buzzard.   (Not shown is camera-shy photographer and Fearless Leader, Bob Clemens. )

Our first task was to spread 10 bags of pine bark nuggets on the pathways in the parking lot pollinator garden. Following that, Linda, Ingrid, Rosemary, and Denise were dispatched to trim vegetation on the Branch Wood trail, the South Woods Trail, and the North Woods Trail.

 Kathleen is our resident “laminator queen” and vegetation “labeler,”  and she inventoried and cleaned many of the signs marking our plants, shrubs, and trees in the Preserve. ️

 David and Julia installed a new “mailbox” for our visitors’ clipboard, hoping to improve on the current 20% participation rate (compared to our “people counter”).  They also placed a new shorebird information plaque on the new kiosk!  Check out the QR code! ✅ We’re gettin very high tech.

Jim and John replaced a rotting pallet in the storage area, and then Sal, John, Jim and Bob culled dead limbs from around and even from “in” the pond, and took two truckloads of debris to the collection area.

Our next Work Day will be on Saturday January 11th from 8:30 to 10AM. RSVPs helpful, but not required to:    Rclemens318@gmail.com

Robert “Bob” Clemens

Co-Chair Audubon Newhall Preserve