Watered the plants planted during the Warped Tour event in the BMX park and the plants planted early this year next to the skate park.

About fifty people from the Warped Tour donated their time to help beautify the BMX park in Natividad Creek Park.
The volunteers planted twenty trees on the slopes of the park and nearly 100 grasses, shrubs, and ground covers along the fence. Each planted area also received the paper and mulch treatment which created a strip along the fence that will hopefully keep the worst of the weeds down.
The volunteers also weeded in the BMX park and collected trash along the creek.

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RON had an informational table at the Night Out event in Salinas where we distributed information, let kids experiement with the watershed model, and connected with the community.

Before the event started we also checked out the BMX area to see what holes had been dug in preperation for the Warped Tour event.

We met up with Dale to discuss upcoming events, potential grants, and the plan of attack for preperation of the BMX area for the Warped Tour event. Afterwards we scouted potential planting areas and the Children's Discovery Garden where we discovered several volunteer humming bird sage plants.

We worked first on watering the natives and weeding around them in the field near the skate park.

After that we scouted around the BMX park and brainstormed on projects the Warped Tour group coming in August can work on. We're thinking of planting and using the paper/mulch method along the fence and perhaps in other spots.

We also took a look at the 'meadow' area to see some of the result of the paper/mulch method. So far it has been very successful with a minimum of weeds and rapid growth of the natives planted in the paper/mulch area. It will be interesting to see how it holds up over the winter. We've decided that the method is absolutely worth trying with other planting sites.
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We spent the last part of our day out there collecting seeds from California poppies.

Public event at Natividad Creek Park. We worked on watering the natives planted earlier in the year in the field next to the skate park and on clearing out radish to expose the planted natives. We also worked on collecting trash from that stretch of the creek.

Earth Day event at Natividad Creek Park. We worked on weeding in restored area near the skate park and picking up litter. Afterwards there was a frog parade and visit by the mayor of Salinas.

We scouted around Natividad Creek Park in preperation for a weed event on Saturday. Potential sites include the restored area near the skate park, the Salad Bowl O'Doom, and the meadow area.

Earth Day event at Locke Paddon park in Marina. We planted natives along a new split rail fence.

School event at Upper Carr Lake with 6th graders. We worked on digging out Italian thistle and mustard on the peninsula and picked up trash.

School event at Natividad Creek Park with 6th graders. We worked on pulling out hemlock on the restored hillside parallel Freedom and picked up trash around the park.

Planted more willows in Arroyo Seco and checked up on previous plantings (looks good!)

Worked on weedwhacking in the Salad Bowl o'Doom in Natividad Creek Park and pre-dug holes for an event in the area weedwhacked.
We tried to find the native plants we had planted a few months ago during an event on the hillside parallel Freedom but it's thick with poison hemlock.
We also checked up on the meadow area which seems to be doing well with the paper and mulch method. We photographed all those areas and test dug in Discover Garden.

Public planting event at Upper Carr Lake in the triangle field.

We set up for a school planting event at Carmel Lagoon that ended up being canceled. We went back to the Watershed Institute and unloaded then reloaded the truck for Saturday’s event.

School planting event at the triangle field in Upper Carr Lake. We did some litter pickup around the lake afterwards.

Public planting event at Carmel Lagoon. Had almost 50 people total and we had to send the truck back for more plants so that there would be enough to put in the ground.

School event at Natividad Creek Park near the frog pond. We had 3rd and 6th graders plant native plants in the field across from the frog pond.

Public planting event at Upper Carr Lake. We planted several hundred plants, including 20 trees, collected trash and weeded some mustard and thistle on the peninsula.

School planting day at Upper Carr Lake. Two bus loads (4 classes?) of 5th graders planted natives in the expanding restored area, pulled mustard along the peninsula, and collected trash.