Copperfield Nature Trails Workday

05/17/2008

As it get close to summer it gets too hot to have greenbelt workdays along Walnut Creek, but the Copperfield Nature Trails Group has a few fun tasks on their to do list before the heat comes.  The current workday agenda includes:

• Plant mountain laurel and native plums and maybe a few other plants.
• Dig holes and reset two trail markers in concrete so the vandals can't pull them out again
• Dig holes and install two posts and piece of lattice to support cross vines we planted along the storm drain.
• A few areas of the main trail on the way to Yager need someone to take a pick axe to the ruts left by the 4wheelers to smooth the trail. 
• Mow and weed whack along the "scenic loop" trail and the trail at the Shropshire entrance.
• Whack a 1 inch stump out of the trail somewhere near Shropshire (I trip over it when I run, but then I can't find it on workdays!)
• A few areas along the fence line trail need to be widened by lopping back the cedar branches.

Date: May 17th    

Time:  9am-12pm (noon)

Location:  dead-end of Blakeney Lane (NE Austin – 78753)

Contact:  copperfield-trails@austin.rr.com or 835-2401