Posted on May 29, 2018 at 12:27 PM by Allan Warren
Members of the Sumner Lions Club planted 20 bare root shrubs along Salmon Creek in early March.
This site was planted in October of last year, but will need additional plants to ensure appropriate
density to successfully shade out invasive reed canary grass and to replace any plants that die.
In-fill planting such as this is one of many techniques used to meet our habitat restoration goals.
A late spring snow didn’t deter
the 30 volunteers who came out to
continue the restoration planting
effort at the District’s South Prairie
Creek Preserve on March 24. Together
with another volunteer planting
earlier in March, and with help from
Washington Conservation Corps and
Earth Corps crews, 2040 plants were
planted on 3.5 acres this spring!
With the planting season behind us,
we turn our attention to monitoring
and maintaining our new plantings, as well as planning and preparing sites for
more habitat planting work this fall.
Recent visits to many of the planting
sites show healthy new growth – an
encouraging sign! District staff will
be monitoring plantings this summer
to determine just how well they are
doing and note any issues that may
be affecting success. This information
will inform decisions on how
future habitat restoration plantings
are designed and implemented.