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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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), […]
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 […]
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 […]
While they try to beat it, they’re eating it. Garlic mustard is a tasty invasive plant.
by Marlene Berlin John Burwell, the Pinehurst Project weed warrior who has lately adopted Broad Branch Stream, recently invited a small group of volunteers to help pull invasive garlic mustard […]