• Arbor Lake Park, 12380 2nd Ave South, volunteers will be working 9 am-Noon to spread mulch chips around the native planting added late last year along the North side of the lake.  No restroom facilities!
• Shorewood Park, 28th Ave SW & SW 119th Street , volunteers will be working 10am-Noon to remove those English ivy shoots and continue pushing the big stands out of the park.  Also, we have had lots of branches fall – great mulch except those that are covering our new native plantings, so we can artistically replace those, and add a few  baby native conifer trees.  No restroom facilities!

Coming up in March:

• Salmon Creek Ravine on Saturday, March 10th,  volunteers will be working 10 am- 2 pm (unless we finish earlier)  planting 150 new bare root plants and mulching around the newly added plants.

For more information, contact Lisa Aumann at the City of Burien: (206) 988-3700 or lisaa@burienwa.gov.

Volunteers are needed to help clean up Shorewood Park this Saturday, April 2nd from 10am – Noon.

“Please just show up if you’re interested – bring pruners and gloves if you have them,” reads an email.

Shorewood Park is located at 28th Ave SW and SW 118th Street (follow Ambaum to 116th Street, head west on 116th Street and follow to 28th Avenue SW make a left and go 2 blocks, the park entrance is on your left side.)

The group will be working the bottom portion of the trail so please take the trail around.

Please note that there are NO Restroom Facilities.

Adds Lisa Aumann of the City of Burein:

“Might need your rain gear – no foolin!”

The folks at Shorewood on the Sound Blog say that the final Shorewood Park Work Party of the year is this Saturday, Oct. 9th, starting at 10am.

Volunteers are meeting at the park entrance on 28th Place SW at 10am to do an Autumn cleanup of “those persistent Himalayan blackberry and English ivy vines as well as any Herb Robert still in bloom.”

They add:

We have a wonderful ‘pocket’ forest in our neighborhood and thanks to your efforts over the years it is such an enjoyable place to take a walk year round.

Check http://seahurstpark.org/volunteer.html if you want directions to the park. There is a Google map to our park.

For more information, check out the Shorewood on the Sound Blog here.

As is usually the case in Burien, there are volunteer park cleanups going on this weekend, with two of note:

1. SHOREWOOD PARK: Saturday 8/14/10, 10 am-12 pm:
The Shorewood event is scheduled at Shorewood Park from 10am – 12 pm. Please just show up if you’re interested – bring pruners and gloves if you have them. Shorewood Park is located at 28th Ave SW and SW 118th Street (follow Ambaum to 116th Street, turn left so you are heading west on 116th Street and follow to 28th Ave SW make a left and go 2 blocks, the park entrance is on your left side.) No Restroom Facilities.

The second Saturday of the month will alternate between Salmon Creek Ravine (odd months) and Shorewood Park (even months.) Work will happen from 10-noon. The “Shorewood on the Sound” neighborhood group has taken the lead on Shorewood Park and is now adding their wonderful environmental skills to Salmon Creek Ravine. Please check www.seahurstpark.org for updated locations of the work parties!

2. EAGLE LANDING PARK: Sunday, 8/15/10, 10 am-1 pm (Monthly – 2nd Sunday of the Month)
Please just show up if you’re interested – bring some water/gloves, and loppers if you have them. Volunteer Park Steward is Jim Branson. Eagle Landing Park is located at 14641 25th Ave SW. Follow SW 149th street heading past 25th AVE SW and the park is located on the left (west ) side of the street. The parking lot is small so if you park in the neighborhood please take care not to block neighbor’s driveways. No restrooms on site – the closest facilities are at Lake Burien Park (149th & 18th Ave SW). Please also check http://eaglelandingpark.org/ for updated information on volunteer work parties and information on Eagle Landing Park.

Summer’s finally here, and what better way to embrace it than by whackin’ weeds at local parks?

Volunteers are needed at two local parks, to help remove invasive plants like ivy, blackberry and everyone’s fave, “Stinky Bob.”

Here are the details:

SALMON CREEK PARK: Saturday 7/10/10 10 am-12 pm:
Once more we will meet at 10 AM where 130th SW bends into 131st. You may park along 16th SW (Map here). We will continue to work along the trail, removing Ivy and Himalayan Blackberry and Stinky Bob. Trees deeper in the forest await rescue from Ivy as well as a few on the bank and the trail. Please notice the dead ivy on trees along the road – result of work done at our January and March work parties.

EAGLE LANDING PARK: Sunday, 7/11/10 10 am-1 pm (Monthly – 2nd Sunday of the Month):
Please just show up if you’re interested – bring some water/gloves, and loppers if you have them. Volunteer Park Steward is Jim Branson. Eagle Landing Park is located at 14641 25th Ave SW. Follow SW 149th street heading past 25th AVE SW and the park is located on the left (west ) side of the street. The parking lot is small so if you park in the neighborhood please take care not to block neighbor’s driveways. No restrooms on site – the closest facilities are at Lake Burien Park (149th & 18th Ave SW). Please also check http://eaglelandingpark.org/ for updated information on volunteer work parties and information on Eagle Landing Park.

The second Saturday of the month will alternate between Salmon Creek Ravine (odd months) and Shorewood Park (even months.) Work will happen from 10-noon. The “Shorewood on the Sound” neighborhood group has taken the lead on Shorewood Park and is now adding their wonderful environmental skills to Salmon Creek Ravine.

We predict that, like many recent seasonal changes, this weekend will suddenly feel like summer has arrived. Therefore, it’s going to be a great time to be outside, and what better way than by helping out your community by doing some park cleaning?

Here are two events that will surely satisfy your urge to help Burien’s parks:

SHOREWOOD PARK: Saturday 6/12/10 10 am-12 pm
The Shorewood event is scheduled at Shorewood Park from 10am – 12 pm.  Please just show up if you’re interested – bring pruners and gloves if you have them.  Shorewood is located at 28th Avenue SW and SW 118th Street (follow Ambaum to 116th Street, head west on 116th Street and follow to 28th Avenue SW, make a left and go 2 blocks, the park entrance is on your left side.)  No Restroom Facilities.

The second Saturday of the month cleanups will alternate between Salmon Creek Ravine (odd months) and Shorewood Park (even months.)  Work will happen from 10-noon.  The “Shorewood on the Sound” neighborhood group has taken the lead on Shorewood Park and is now adding their wonderful environmental skills to Salmon Creek Ravine.  Please check www.seahurstpark.org for updated locations of the work parties!

EAGLE LANDING PARK:  Sunday, 6/13/10  10 am-1 pm  (Monthly – 2nd Sunday of the Month)
Please just show up if you’re interested – bring some water/gloves, and loppers if you have them. Volunteer Park Steward is Jim Branson.   Eagle Landing Park is located at 14641 25th Ave SW.  Follow SW 149th street heading past 25th AVE SW and the park is located on the left (west ) side of the street.  The parking lot is small so if you park in the neighborhood please take care not to block neighbor’s driveways.  No restrooms on site – the closest facilities are at Lake Burien Park (149th & 18th Ave SW).  Please also check http://eaglelandingpark.org/ for updated information on volunteer work parties and information on Eagle Landing Park.

This month’s Shorewood cleanup event is scheduled at Shorewood Park on Saturday, June 20th from 10am – 12 pm.

Please just show up if you’re interested – bring pruners and gloves if you have them.

Shorewood Park is located at 28th Avenue SW and SW 118th Street (follow Ambaum to 116th Street, turn left so you are heading west on 116th Street and follow to 28th Avenue SW make a left and go 2 blocks, the park entrance is on your left side.)

The group may be spreading mulch in the lower half of the park so follow the short trail around.

Burien Parks wants everyone to know that this Saturday (May 16th), from 10am-Noon there’s a group mulching party at Shorewood Park, which is located at 28th Ave SW and SW 118th Street.

Just remember – bring a bucket!

Here are the details:

WHAT: Group mulching party

WHEN: Saturday, May 16th from 10am to Noon

WHERE: Shorewood Park, located at 28th SW and SW 118th Streets

INFO: Please just show up if you’re interested –bring pruners and gloves if you have them. Tomorrow the group is mulching so if you have a bucket with a handle bring it along (possibly 5 gallon but can be smaller.)

Shorewood is located at 28th Avenue SW and SW 118th Street (follow Ambaum to 116th Street, turn left so you are heading west on 116th Street and follow to 28th Avenue SW make a left and go 2 blocks, the park entrance is on your left side.)

The group may be working in the lower half of the park so follow the short trail around.

As Spring springs into our midst, a young man’s (and woman’s) fancy turns of course to…gardening.

Weeding.

Pruning.

And epecially, as the kids say, “getting the ivy out!”

So what better way to sate your newly-sprouted spring desires than to attend a Shorewood Park Work Party this Saturday, March 21st, from 10an to Noon?

This work party is a collaboration between the City of Burien’s Adopt-A-Park project and Shorewood-On-The-Sound Community Club (SOTSCC), and notice comes to us courtesy Jean Spohn, a Director of SOTSCC, as well as member of the Burien Parks and Recreation Board and the initiator of the SOTSCC’s ‘Adopt a Park’ program.

Here’s more info from Jean:

Work parties in Shorewood Park continue in 2009 from 10:00 AM to Noon on the third Saturday of every month. Please join us! We have many tasks, great and small! January’s volunteer force boasted 11 members – some pulled ivy from an area graced by two Noble Fir trees planted by Fred Henzi 20 years ago, and others planted Coastal Strawberry plants which are a wonderful native groundcover.

In February, volunteers placed 25 Sword Ferns along our trail and then removed many small English Holly trees and lots of English Ivy. Seahurst Park has been adopted. Work parties are held the 4th Saturday of each month.

At this party, the focus will be on everyone’s favorite invasive plant – ivy.

You might wonder – Why is English ivy a problem? English ivy is a woody, climbing vine that has been used extensively in the Pacific Northwest. Ivy used to be found in roadside plantings, on steep banks, as ornamental decoration and climbing on buildings, fences and other vertical surfaces. But English ivy is not native to the United States and has no natural predators or pests to keep it in check. It easily escapes from planting areas and invades natural areas, parks and urban forests. It creates “Ivy Deserts” – areas so dominated by ivy that no other vegetation survives. Ivy affects trees negatively, especially when it climbs into the canopy. By adding weight to limbs and reducing air flow around the tree’s trunk, ivy makes a tree more susceptible to canopy failure, wind stress and disease. It can also strangle trees around their base and reduce the flow of nutrients up and down the tree.

English ivy does not provide a significant food for native wildlife, but does provide habitat for rats. And banks covered with ivy are prone to landslide.

What can you do? Do not plant ivy. Remove ivy, especially from vertical surfaces where it seeds and is spread further by birds. Remove ivy from your yard. Participate in a Shorewood Park work party.

Please bring pruners and gloves if you have them. Shorewood is located at 28th Avenue SW and SW 118th Street (follow Ambaum to 116th Street, head west on 116th Street and follow to 28th Avenue SW, make a left and go 2 blocks, the park entrance is on your left side – see map below). The group may be working in the lower half of the park so follow the short trail around.

For more information, check:

• http://seahurstpark.org/volunteer.html#about
• http://shorewoodonthesound.org/adoptpark.php
  

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Please just show up if you’re interested – and don’t forget to bring pruners and gloves if you have them.

The group may be working in the lower half of the park so follow the short trail around and look for your fellow gardeners.

Shorewood Park is located at 28th Avenue SW and SW 118th Street (Follow Ambaum to 116th Street, turn left so you are heading west on 116th Street and follow to 28th Avenue SW make a left and go 2 blocks, the park entrance is on your left side):

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