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June 13 2026 Work Party
Field trip to ƛ̕ ax̌ʷadis (Tl’ awh-ah-dees) Park. KBA, Inc came back to see the park they helped through construction. Dear friends from Molina came to pitch in again. And as always, you were there. It was hot, there were mosquitos. We stayed in the shade, took breaks. Looked for Himalayan blackberry hiding in the salmonberry, learned bird’s-foot trefoil, avoided nettles. Talked about salmon, who are coming home very soon, talked about the relationship between plants and fish, talked about the degradation Euro-American settlement has brought to this land. Talked about healing, worked at healing. Sweaty, bitten, tired, we cooled with popsicles KBA generously shared, shared with each other, then…
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May 23 2026 Work Party
Holiday weekend and you showed up. A group of Yale alumni. Returning friends. New friends. Buttercup, dock, reed canary grass, yellow flag iris, bindweed, thistle, Himalayan blackberry, herb Robert, ivy. So many weeds. Nootka rose, salmonberry, osoberry, Western red cedar, Douglas fir, twinberry, snowberry, sedges, rushes, sword fern, bracken fern, lady fern, red alder, big leaf maple, vine maple. So many native plants to steward. A gift, all of it, including you.
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April 11 2026 Work Party
I remember you.
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June 14 2025 Work Party
A duckling worked with us for a time, nibbling on plants while we weeded. A heron perched on a nearby log. Some of us dug into a thick stand of reed canary grass, others of us combed over an area we had worked before, clipping and pulling reed canary grass from among native rushes and sedges. We ferreted out thistle, blackberry, and mullein, lifted bags of plant clippings up to the bridge, pushed them across the boardwalk, drove them across the street to be composted. A perfect day of quiet resistance.
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April 5 2025 Work Party
We took an excursion to the west side of ƛ̕ax̌ʷadis Park. It was good.
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November 23 2024 Work Party
Thirteen loppers, 11 clippers, 10 root slayers, five little shovels. Four hundred harvested and supplied willow stakes, 116 potted plants laid out by the maintenance contractor. One snake skin, three copies of The Serviceberry, four steady goat feet. 105 Scirpus microcarpus, an unspecified number of harvested willow whips, an uncountable blanket of red cedar seedlings huddled under tiny rectangular skylights. Two fleeting moments of rain, so light it barely whispered. Three hours well spent.
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November 2 2024 Work Party
On the precipice. All together now.
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August 17 2024 Work Party
Field trip to ƛ̕ax̌ʷadis (Tl’ awh-ah-dees) Park.
