|
Current
Activities |
|
DIGGING
EVENT
Sunday, April 18, 2010
9am to noon
Must register before noon on 4/16/2010
Contact
Anna Thurston
The Native
Plant Salvage Alliance serves people and
restoration projects occurring in Pierce County.
Barring frozen soil, we dig for plants before
development bulldozers arrive in all kinds of
weather between
October 1 and March 29.
If you are interested in being placed on our
event announcement e-mail list, please contact:
Anna Thurston
(Be sure to
provide phone number and mailing address
[including County] in the body of message.)
Unless we happen upon a site with plants that
are too good to pass, and which will survive the
digging, this event will be our last for the
spring season. Be sure to set a reminder
in your calendar to look for our next event
dates in October, when rainfall resumes in our
midst.
|
|
NPSA News |
|
NPSA News
SPECIAL THANKS:
Advanced Botanical Resources, Inc.
City of Bonney Lake
City
of Tacoma
Metro
Parks Tacoma
Quadrant Homes, Inc.
Washington State University
Weyerhaeuser, Inc.
Numerous volunteers and personal donors
News
Want to
Participate?
As a volunteer
Offer a site to salvage
Wish List |
|
Preparing Yourself for Plant Salvage
Action
Now
that the salvage season has come to a
close, you'll want to keep an eye on the
health of the plants you have salvaged
and hopefully placed back into the
environment. If the weather gets warm
and dry, you'll want to water your
friends at least once a week. Wood chip
mulch (not the same as floatable and
less nutritious bark chips) is the best
material you can layer onto the surface
around your plants to sustain the
moisture that you do apply.
For people salvaging prairie native
plants, check out the
seedling plant photos [3.6MB]
thankfully provided to us in Power Point
format (has been converted to PDF) by
the folks at The Nature Conservancy.
If you have questions about the NPSA
program, please contact me. Have a
great summer, and don't forget to water
your new plants while you gain the many
benefits of Nature!
Anna
Thurston, Volunteer
Coordinator
Native Plant Salvage Alliance (serving
Pierce County)
President - Advanced Botanical
Resources, Inc.
WA Gen Contr # ADVABR919K0
253.566.3342 h // c 253.227.4923
Contact:
anna.thurston@ssstewardship.org
The
Native Plant Salvage Alliance website is
the
place to go for:
Volunteers who seek to salvage plants or work with local
organizations offering habitat restoration activities. Check out
our activity details to learn more.
Click here to submit your e-mail address
to obtain electronic
updates about future salvage events.
Builders & Developers
who would like to
offer
a site to be salvaged.
Program Partners
who would like to
support plant salvaging in Tacoma/Pierce County in exchange for
PR, plants or access to volunteers. Contact the
volunteer coordinator
if you would like to participate
with us.
Program Sponsors
who would like to
donate products or services
to the program in exchange for advertising on this website as well
as PR in other program venues. Please check out our current
wish list
to see if there is something you can help us with.
Please note:
Items with [PDF] will require Adobe Reader to view
them. If you do not have the program, you may download it from
Adobe.
|
