By Lan Loung, Beaverton High School
Eco-Club member
TRWC, Eco Club members and neighborhood volunteers
worked to remove invasive ivy around native plant species
they had previously planted in Moonshadow Park.
Kyle Spinks, TRWC chair and project manager, guided
me and a fellow Eco Club member through the park and
told us that the main objective for the day’s
work would be to work on saving the park from the invasive
English Ivy—a plant that has severely disrupted
the growth of many young native plants in the park.
We joined community volunteers and feverously pulled
English Ivy from the ground. Thanks to the rain from
the previous days, the ground was mushier than usual
making the ivy much easier to remove.
After removing ivy for several hours, we all worked
together to remove an old pipe left to rot in the park.
The pipe was extremely heavy but the many hands and strategic
planning by Moonshadow neighbor Chris Corich made the
removal successful. After the pipe had made it to the
street, we looked at it in triumph – the workday
could not end in a better manner. The piles of uprooted
English Ivy stood as a testimony of the persevering efforts
of the volunteers. Wet, muddy, cold, but happy—I
along with my fellow Eco Club members and community volunteers
applauded each other for the feat we had accomplished
that day and look forward to the next volunteer opportunity
on December 9. |
Volunteers with some of the ivy pulled during the work
party
Moving the pipe
With the pipe at the park entrance
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