The neighbor who made Linnean Park’s first-ever interpretive signs has also created one for the nearby Broad Branch tributary of Rock Creek. John Burwell’s latest sign, on Linnean Avenue near the footbridge leading to the walking path, informs visitors of the Broad Branch stream’s history as a “daylighted” waterway. The project that brought the stream […]
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ANC 3F March 21 agenda: Soapstone work, stream safety warnings, sidewalk cafes
After DC Water’s March 9th public meeting on the Soapstone Valley sewer rehabilitation project, ANC 3F commissioners still have concerns about the relining process, the noise from water pumps, and the construction and maintenance of the sewage bypass system. At their meeting on Tuesday, March 21st, ANC 3F will be discussing a resolution on those […]
Linnean Park now has signs, because a park volunteer and advocate “thought it was time”
by John Burwell When I and some like-minded neighbors adopted Linnean Park last summer, our goals went beyond improving the park for health of flora, fauna and enjoyment by visitors. We have been lobbying the Department of Parks and Recreation to consider installing an official identifying sign at each entrance, similar to those erected at […]
How DC’s oldest Boy Scout troop built a new bridge in Linnean Park
by John Burwell One weekend in early January, William Wales, a junior at Jackson-Reed High School, led Boy Scout Troop 100 in building and installing a boardwalk bridge over a small waterway in Linnean Park. This fulfilled the requirements for his Eagle Scout service project. As regular park visitors know, the old log footbridge was […]
Young volunteers are replacing a rotting bridge on the Linnean Park trail
by John Burwell Visitors to Linnean Park the weekend January 7th and 8th will be unable to cross the old cut log footbridge, as a new boardwalk bridge will be under construction. A member of Boy Scout Troop 100 will be leading the troop in building a level and safe water crossing as his Eagle […]
Linnean Park has officially been adopted by some neighbors
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 […]
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 […]
Ida’s remnants bring flooding and damage to Broad Branch Road and nearby streams and trails
by Marlene Berlin Before dawn on Wednesday, WTOP traffic reporter Dave Dildine was checking for Ida-related flood damage, and Broad Branch Road was one of his stops. Broad Branch Road NW will need to be closed. In addition to large storm debris, the force of flood water has compromised a section of the road, lifting […]
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 […]
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