Last Updated on May 15, 2017
The Nature Trail Committee’s Trail and Stream Clean-up Day on June 6 was not only a resounding success, but also a fun work day, with 19 persons participating. We worked on cleaning Herbert Run and its tributaries, removing downed trees from the stream, pulling garlic mustard weeds, erosion control on the hillside above the Trail, clearing portions of the Trail, picking up trash by the Lake Trail, and weeding the Butterfly Garden.
Summer view of bridge after brush clearing.
Winter view of bridge before brush clearing.
The 1915 map that shows where the bridge crosses Herbert Run on the old Abbott property before the seminary bought the area.
The Trail to the Old Stone Bridge below the dam is now complete, and Grounds has removed two fallen trees which have laid on the bridge for many years. The 1906 bridge is an interesting place to visit, and the Trail to it from the Lake Trail is only about 100 yards long. The old spring in the hillside just upstream of the Nature Trail’s covered wooden bridge has now been completely uncovered, and the arched brick opening is easy to spot. Water still trickles out of the spring. Our new Wildflower Garden (across Erickson Way from the Herbert’s Run building) now has growth in it up to 3 feet high. At least two species of flowers are in bloom so far, including Cosmos.
Our next meeting of the Nature Trail Committee will be at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, July 15 in the Cross Creek Craft Room. Join us if you care to. As is our custom, there will be no August meeting of the Committee.