Smith-Blackburn Homestead is a property located east of Elk Island National Park, and is home to a vast array of wildlife, feathered, furred, and finned. We need some helping hands in order to help maintain some of our conservation projects on the land, all to do with trees!
This event is all about caring for the trees. Throughout the land and especially near the lake, old mature trees provide important habitat for birds, small mammals, and other wildlife. However, a healthy beaver population in the area means that many of them are being felled. We will be wrapping the bases of some of the bigger and older trees with wire to protect them from the busy beavers.
In 2021, we also planted 30 spruce trees and 110 shrubs to restore an area filled with invasive plants. At this event, we will be manually clipping back the weeds and grasses around these trees and shrubs to reduce competition and allow them to thrive. The trees in particular have disappeared into the forest of grasses, and we would like to uncover them so that any trail maintenance activity doesn’t accidentally harm them.
We will meet at the Smith Blackburn Homestead at 10:00 AM and leave the site by 3:00 PM.
What to bring and wear:
Wear appropriate footwear
Long pants
Bring a lunch and water
Hat
Sunscreen
Camera or binoculars if you'd like.
If you have your own gloves to bring we recommend that you do so, but otherwise tools and gloves will be provided. Additional information will be sent to you several days in advance of the event.
Other notes:
If you need to cancel, please do so through SignUp.com or inform us as soon as possible. Please arrive on time.
Stewardship events are weather-dependent and subject to cancellation.
Please contact us in advance if you wish to bring a minor to this event.
If you wish to carpool with another volunteer, please review our Carpooling Policy here.
Click the button below to register. Email Meghan at meghan.jacklin@ealt.ca with any questions about this event.
Huge thanks to One Tree Planted for supporting this event! Participant names and contact information will be shared with One Tree Planted for this event.
