Clearing Blowdown
April 22, 2018. Members of the Wildlife Club out clearing cedar trees felled during the March snowstorms
Tree Planting
To get an early jump on Earth Week and Arbor Day, student volunteers from the RU Outdoors Club and Ecology department came out to plant trees in the RU EcoPreserve. Bare root sapling “whips” of flowering dogwood, black gum and persimmon were planted in several gaps opened up by Superstorm Sandy back in 2012. Since then the gaps have been invaded by a thick ground cover of stiltgrass and mutliflora rose. The students removed some of the competing vegetation and…
Early Spring Snowfall
Last snowfall of 2018???
Students for Environmental Awareness clean-up
Students for Environmental Awareness (SEA) came out to the EcoPreserve on March 3 2018 to help clear the trails and pick up litter. As always, all students and student groups are welcome to participate in trash clean-up and trail maintenance work days out in the EcoPreserve. Contact the EcoPreserve Director, Rick Lathrop, to schedule an event.