Joe Duarte, Sr. Field Clean Up

Blue 4 spends the lunch break observing Harris Hawk trainers from the Sacramento Zoo in the nearby field

 Brad and Sydney enjoy the beautiful weather as they spend a few days raking the park and baseball diamonds

Brad, Sydney, and Alyssa rake leaves onto a tarp while Carolyn and Amber pack leaves into a trailer

Brad, Syd and Alyssa dump leaves in the trailer

McKinley Park Rose Garden

Matt and Taylor work to prune the rose bushes to help prepare for the plants for the spring.

Sydney, Alyssa, and May pose with roses cut and collected from the garden.

Common Ground Haikus

 Break time is over.
Doing taxes, help the poor.
Blue 4 here we go!

 Basking in the sun,
McKinley Park Rose Garden.
Pruning rose bushes.

Common Ground Haikus

Drove back from dinner,
But there was a road block.
Herd of 30 elk.

Worked at a food bank,
Broccoli bagging races.
The best ISP.

No Shave November,
hairy people everywhere.
Saving h2o.

Independent Service Project at Turtle Ridge Wildlife Center

 

Michael, Sarah, Taylor and Matt spent time working in the Waterfowl Reserve spreading dirt and river rocks.

Blue 4, excluding Team Leader Michael Green, with Jess and Villain the deer.

Carolyn, the coordinator of the day's project at Turtle Ridge, is feeding an injured red tailed hawk.

The Tour of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Fish Hatchery at Milo McIver State Park

While we took a break from pulling Scotch Broom, the staff gave us a tour of the fish hatchery.

Feeding the salmon.

Planting in Luckiamute

Sydney Lawson and Sarah Gadomski install native plants at the Luckiamute State Natural Area .

Alyssa Pun takes native plants from the trailer bed to place them where they are to be installed at the Paddler's Access area of the Luckiamute State Natural Area.

Taylor Burback and Michael Green place plants where they are to be installed at the Luckiamute State Natural Area.