Troop 785 Scouts installing plants near the park trail

Despite chilly weather on December 10, a total of eighteen girl scouts from Columbia River Girl Scout troops 1311(12 scouts)  and 785 (6 scouts) along with  troop leaders and parents and Moonshadow Park neighbors planted 200 native plants along the park trail, in riparian and upland areas in under TWO HOURS!   All of us are amazed by the power of Girls Scouts!  This planting is part of the Moonshadow Park restoration plan in which neighbors, Tualatin Hills Park and Recreation District, Tualatin Watershed Council, SOLV, Clean Water Services and other basin partners are working together to restore the park.  The plan includes removing invasive plant species, planting native plants and assisting the native plants in reclaiming the area in which blackberries and ivy had taken over. 

The plants will help shade out invasive plant species such as Himalayan blackberry, bindweed, morning glory, English ivy and other species and provide shade along the stream and decrease high summer time temperatures as well as provide nutrients for aquatic life such as fish and stream insects. 

Troop 1311 scouts plant a cedar tree upslope of the trail!

Learn more about the Girl Scouts participation the in the Guy Miller Tree Planting project at http://www.cpcbsa.org/activities/treeplant/index.php.

Finishing up the job!

Thanks to Chris Corich for the great pictures!