Our Work Party on Saturday the 14th in Salem was a total success. Great weather, great crowd, good fun!
Saturday was “Step It Up Day” a “National Day of Climate Action” and some of us felt that we were key potential participants, since this is a real hands-on grassroots activity with the goal of restoring a species that will help provide a balanced ecological approach to sequestering atmospheric carbon, and providing the foundation to a restoration program for a significant ecological niche.
So we listed the site on the National Step it Up event index at http://events.stepitup2007.org/events/show/1900
David Bingham had most of the site-work complete, and lots of different chores including: weeding, tube assembly and marking, soil mixing, soil sterilization, seed layout and finally planting of the seed. The work started at 1pm and lasted until sunset.
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Team gathers for instruction |
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Allison and Jack assemble the planting tubes. Each tube is marked for location and type (backcross, American, or control) of nut planted |
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David manages the field organically, so surprises such as this young Rani sylvestri are not uncommon |
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David and Elizabeth plant the American chestnut seeds. |
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The hard working planters gather for a photo. |
