*static* 7 days… is what I was going to say on Monday before
I got distracted. My group this week was
assigned to the Forest Park project right here in St. Louis. Coincidentally we’re working the same grounds
as last time where we put in the trail.
I’m happy to announce the trail has held up pretty well! The areas where we had removed stumps have
kind of concaved into small craters and the plants on either side are crowding
it due to a lack of use, but these were minor touch ups that we quickly dealt
with. We primarily worked along the
waterfront, clearing it out of woody plants and invasives so folks using the
trail will have a more pleasant view.
There was sooo much poison ivy in the vegetation we were swimming through
that it gave Shawnee a run for its money.
I’m itching pretty badly but am uncertain as to whether or not it is bug
or ivy related—if it is the latter than I consider myself lucky to have avoided
it this long.
Anyways, things have been going great! I took down a complicated tree with only a
minor hiccup (hill threw off my angle) and you can definitely see the progress
we’ve made this week. Everything seems
so much clearer and cleaner along the riverfront that it is hard to imagine
what it even looked like before we began.
Hope all is going well in your parts of the world!
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