Plant a Tree with GOCWC!

On a chilly, miraculously dry morning in February, ten of us volunteers shared the park only with one or two dedicated disc golf players as we gathered around to hear Willow, Community Outreach Coordinator at Greater Oregon City Watershed Council, speak about the native plants we’d be planting along Singer Creek.

Singer Creek is a cold-water tributary to the Willamette River, and any efforts to restore the corridor also help the populations of fish that travel inside it, she and her site supervisor Tom told us as we learned our proper planting techniques. Over the course of this February, GOCWC will add hundreds of natives to the area immediately surrounding the creek, ready to grow and flourish this spring.

This work has been a long time coming for Willow; for the past several months, she’s been responsible for the implementation of this plan, from selecting every plant that will be planted to deciding where they would all go. This, along with invasive species removal, publicizing the effort, and finding and organizing volunteers, has kept her busy all winter.

We had an absolute blast out there volunteering with the lovely folks in Oregon City, and know that can only happen when a lot of work goes into it behind the scenes. Here’s to Willow and Tom for making such a wonderful project possible, and congratulations to Willow on a couple very successful plantings!

(P.S. if you’re reading this in February 2023, there’s still time to sign up to help her finish her project off! Visit their website at www.gocwc.org for more info.)