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SUMMARY: Event Tending to the Amazing Azalea Park
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Thank you for joining us for the Green Snoqualmie Summer of Service! Your help ensures that Snoqualmie's forests will be healthy for hundreds of years to come.

Azalea Park and Tanner Jeans Fields are home to a great baseball field, playground, and picnic shelter. At the back of the park, one can find the Deep Creek Trail. On August 15th, from 9 AM-12 PM, we are maintaining our ecological restoration site at the Deep Creek Trail trailhead!

The Deep Creek Trail follows a steep ravine and can either take you to the east or west end of the Preston-Snoqualmie Trail. The west end spits you out in Fall City, and in the winter, the east side gives you a view of the south side of Snoqualmie Falls!

We must continue to steward this site to prevent invasive species at the trailhead from flowing downward into the trail system. Specifically, we are concerned about invasive Armenian blackberry, Robert geranium (stinky Bob), and foxglove. In past restoration projects, volunteers have planted a palette of drought-resistant native shrubs and trees; shore pine, tall Oregon-grape, snowberry, the list goes on. Uncontrolled, blackberry will grow up around these and choke them out, preventing them from reproducing in the future. Down the trail, stinky Bob and foxglove are encroaching into the native wildflowers. Luckily, they will meet their fate at your hands, clad with work gloves and carrying shovels and hand tools!
LOCATION:Northwest Slope
DTSTART:20260815T090000
DTEND:20260815T120000
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