by Marlene Berlin In Rock Creek Park and along its tributaries, you can see some fascinating critter behavior if you keep your eyes searching – and your curiosity on high alert. Recently I saw what appeared to be ripples in Rock Creek from droplets of water landing from above. But it was not raining, and […]
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Meet Your Neighbors updates: The artists of Forest Hills and Van Ness
Rose Mosner Rose Mosner, collage artist, teacher and lifelong learner, died in February. She was 95 years old. Mosner taught art at a Queens public middle school for decades, and later, she taught collage art classes to adults through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at American University. Mosner once described her adult students as “vibrant, […]
Plan your Saturday: Forage at the reopened UDC farmers market; Remove an invasive plant (and maybe eat it too)
The weather forecast for the last day of April looks sunny and lovely. We have a couple of ideas for getting out in the neighborhood to enjoy it. John Burwell, one of the official caretakers of the rehabbed Linnean Stream, is a certified Weed Warrior who is leading a volunteer group removing invasive garlic mustard […]
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 […]
These Rock Creek Park cleanups are focused on invasive plants
When the temperatures are above freezing, you’ll often find John Burwell, a certified Weed Warrior, leading a small band of volunteers at the Linnean and Broad Branch streams. They’ve been working at protecting young trees from deer, and protecting native plant species from invasive weeds. Burwell is seeking volunteers to help out Saturday, March 5th […]
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, […]
These Boy Scouts have tamed a wild patch of invasive plants at Broad Branch Stream
by John Burwell There’s a wild patch by the Broad Branch Stream along Nevada Avenue between Nebraska Avenue and 36th Street. And a few Boy Scouts have done a lot to tame it. On May 15th and 16th, Life Scout and Wilson senior Henry Byrne-Kalsvik successfully directed volunteer scouts of Troop 52 to remove targeted […]