In 2014, a DC stream restoration project gave us a park between Broad Branch Terrace and Linnean Avenue. Now, Linnean Park has a group of official caretakers. The Linnean Park Partnership was established early this year through an agreement between the DC Department of Parks & Recreation and a group of environmentally committed neighbors to […]
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Plan your Saturday: Morris dancers greet spring at Peirce Mill; Join the Rock Creek “Extreme Cleanup,” Shop the “Books and Blossoms” pop-up
4/7/2022 update: Friends of Peirce Mill says the mill will not be running on April 9th after all, due to a “recently identified safety issue.” “The gears will be still, but the Mill will nevertheless be open to the public from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., with volunteers and park rangers on hand to provide […]
MLK weekend events include Peirce Mill, Melvin Hazen and Trail 9 cleanups
For the 12th year in a row, volunteers will spend the Martin Luther King holiday weekend sprucing up Rock Creek Park and its tributaries. Rock Creek Conservancy and the National Park Service are hosting several trash and invasive species removal events from Saturday, January 15th through Monday, January 17th. Volunteers will be picking up trash […]
Volunteers have been freeing trees and other native Linnean Park plants from smothering invasive species, and you can join them
John Burwell, an invasive species-fighting champion of the Linnean and Broad Branch stream restoration areas, was at it again last Saturday with a group 10 volunteers, some from neighborhoods close by and some as far away as Buzzard Point. They worked in Linnean Park to clear trees of smothering vines, and the trail of invasive […]
Volunteers have improved the Linnean Park Trail. Now, volunteers are needed to help maintain it.
Neighbors walking the Linnean Park Trail since early July have noticed and enjoyed some sorely needed improvements. The upper part of the trail was renovated with the installation of rolling grade dips, and waterbars, both designed to channel water off the trail. Clearing silt under the rustic footbridge allowed for better water flow. Stone steps […]
Round up invasive weeds at the first Rock Creek “Weed Wrangle” on Sept. 25
Saddle up, pardners. Volunteers are being deputized to round up some weedy invaders in and around Rock Creek Park. On Saturday, September 25th (which is also National Public Lands Day), the National Capital Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management (PRISM) and Rock Creek Conservancy are leading their first “Weed Wrangle,” during which volunteers will remove […]
Check out the newly-improved Linnean Park trail
by Marlene Berlin The all-volunteer team that’s been restoring the trail alongside the restored Linnean stream was back at it on July 2nd and 3rd, this time with a larger crew. When I arrived, I saw a group of eleven working seamlessly together while frogs serenaded and a gaggle of young mallard ducks huddled, unperturbed, […]
Linnean Park trail improvements are getting under way
The trail alongside the rehabilitated Linnean Park stream is getting some much-needed TLC. Last week, volunteers Ben Aurbach, John Burwell and Steve Lukaczer, under the watchful and knowledgeable Potomac Appalachian Trail Club volunteer Mitch Baer, removed built-up mud and silt from under a footbridge to allow easy stream flow. The main work on the trail […]
Volunteers at Broad Branch are battling invasive garlic mustard – to give native plants a fighting chance
A team of volunteers has been clearing bamboo at Broad Branch Stream. That’s not the only invasive species they are battling. John Burwell of the Pinehurst Project tells us what’s on their radar now: This is Tucker Harris, of Ingleside at Rock Creek Park. She has been part of the Pinehurst Project volunteer effort at […]
A more colorful Connecticut Ave. and an easier trek on the Melvin Hazen trail after weekend volunteer work
Volunteers were busy in our neighborhood on Saturday. Van Ness Main Street: “Thank you to yesterday’s wonderful volunteers for helping us plant flowering pollinators in front of the small businesses along Connecticut Ave!” You’ll have more opportunities to pitch in over the next few weekends. Pollinator-friendly plantings are happening every Saturday and Sunday afternoon (weather […]