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Are you a landowner interested in having a FREE trained restoration crew work working with you to help you restore native plants and clear non-natives in a way that preserves the health of your soil and water-quality, restores diverse and beautiful plant communities, and benefits salmon, songbirds and amphibians?
If so, we are very pleased to announce that SPAWN has Americorp Watershed Stewards team members working full-time with us this year in our mission to provide much-needed resources and to help Valley landowners to restore native habitat (clear invasives, plant natives, install erosion control). Ou r dedicated, trained field-crew who will be available to Valley landowners for invasive species removal (100% herbicide-free) and backyard habitat restoration along streams!
Our team is particularly focused in helping you remove non-native ivy vines out of native trees along the creek and from along streambanks. The highly invasive ivy is causing serious damage to native trees (oaks, bays, alders, ash, and maples) by shading and causing stem rot (and then trees fall over). The ivy also suffocates young native plants that could grow along the creekbanks. ALL work we do to remove non-natives is done by hand, no herbicides are ever used.
Other species we work to remove are: French/Spanish broom, non-native blackberry, pampas grass, vinca and giant reed (Arundo donax).
If you would like to participate in our backyard habitat restoration program contact us for a site consultation and to schedule the crew! ; Our schedule will fill fast, so contact us asap if you want to sign up.
SPAWN volunteers also run a small, but very productive, Native Plant Nursery where we grow a diverse array of local plants specifically for restoration projects in the Valley. Species include: elderberry, yerba buena, native bunchgrasses, maple, oak, ash, alder, coffeeberry, ninebark, and many more! To learn more about how you can get plants for your projects contact Paola@tirn.net.
Contact Paola Bouley, SPAWN's Conservation Program Director, for a site consultation to start a restoration plan for your creekside area: Paola@Tirn.net, Tel: 663-8590 ×111