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Join the Bridlemile Creek Stewards

Do you and your family love to see the trillium blooming in the spring in our Bridlemile neighborhood parks?

Trillium Hamilton Park Creek Restoration March 2007, photo by Victor von Salza

To see a family of red-tail hawks soar above the towering firs and hemlocks in our hills? To hear a nighttime chorus of frogs? To know that there are cutthroat trout and clean water in Fanno Creek?

Be part of a continuing tradition of keeping our neighborhood forest and stream habitat healthy! Since 1998, Bridlemile neighbors, led by the Bridlemile Creek Stewards, have removed

Volunteers at June 21st Event
Volunteers at June 21st Event

acres of invasive plants like Himalayan blackberry and English ivy that were destroying our habitat. We planted thousands of native plants,

BCS 2006 Bridlemile School Planting Event at HPCR. Photo by Victor von Salza

providing shade, food and shelter for birds, mammals

Raccoon feeding on native blackberries. Photo by Victor von Salza

and fish. You can see the results in the restoration projects in the wooded areas of Albert Kelly, Hamilton, and the Bridlemile Open Space parks.

You and your family, as Bridlemile Creek Stewards members, can help keep these natural areas healthy. Keep an eye out for invasive plants, and spend a little time to stop them from coming back. Get to know your neighbors! Your kids will earn community service hours and learn from well-qualified watershed scientists and naturalists.

Join the Bridlemile Creek Stewards
There are no membership dues, simply pledge to spend 4 hours each year at one of the three BCS restoration sites in Albert Kelly, Hamilton, and the Bridlemile Open Space parks as Docent or Volunteer.

Docent
Show (using one of the self guided tours for each park - to be posted here soon) interested neighbors/prospective BCS members around one of the three BCS restoration sites and demonstrate how to remove common invasive plants at two of the regular Yearly Events (see below) .

Volunteer
Spend 4 hours removing invasive resprouts at one of the BCS restoration sites; either at one or more of the regular Yearly Events (see below) or at times convenient for you.

Yearly Events
To be determined...likely to include :SOLVit, Down by the River, Green and Clean (SOLV) No Ivy Day, Earth Day and other dates so please check this site for updated postings.

To Join contact:
Steve Mullinax, 503-768-9065, founding member 1998-present
Greg Schifsky, 503-246-2714, founding member 1998-present

This page last updated on June 12, 2008