Last Updated on September 25, 2017
After our usual August hiatus, the Nature Trail Committee got busy again in September. Although it is not a scintillating bit of information, we did finally review and approve our Committee Goals and Actions, They are too numerous for this blog, but they do lay out the extensive interests of the NTC. If you would like an e-copy, please contact me at clegernbl@gmail.com. Equally scintillating, we formed a subcommittee to review and possibly update Wildflower Day, which is a big event for us, and we’d like it to be equally big for all residents.
Progress on various projects we are involved in is as follows:
– Improvements to the Nature Trail are being pursued, including repair of eroded areas and shoring up the edges.
– The Butterfly, Rock, and Wildflower Gardens are soon to be bedded down for the winter.
– The proposed engineering study for improvement of the Lake Trail has been sent out to possible contractors.
– The Grounds Department and Ruppert contractor personnel, working with the Charlestown Tree Working Group, have marked priority dead, dying, and other problem campus trees for removal, mostly along Erickson Way. There are many such trees above and along the Nature Trail, but most are less visible and therefore lower priority. None of these is yet marked for removal.
– New tree and wildflower identification signs for the Nature Trail are being pursued.
– A nascent Birder Group is being developed, as interested staff and resident persons are found.
The next meeting of our Committee will be at 10 AM on Wednesday, October 18 in the Cross Creek Crafts Room.
Bert Clegern
Co-Chairman,
Nature Trail Committee