A number of FPCC folks - Pam, Bruce, Adrienne, Jenean and Troy - teamed up with 80 of our neighbors for a Wildlands Restoration Volunteers project at O'Fallon Park, a Denver Mountain Park.O'Fallon Park is being "loved to death." As an accessible, high use recreational area along Bear Creek, footprint upon footprint have wandered its banks. The challenge is that such concentrated exploration has expedited erosion. As a result, local plant and stream ecology is under duress.
The goal of the project was to restore the mutually sustaining relationship between human thriving and ecological flourishing -to heal the land while strengthening our human connection to it.
Practically speaking, we carried out a number of tasks, such as: prepping and reseeding over-eroded areas; planting willows, chokecherries, and wild roses; building buck and pole fence along sensitive areas; and laying down durable surface on wet sections of trail. We tilled, dug, shoveled, hauled, wheelbarrowed, raked, tamped and - overall - got plenty of fresh air and exercise.
Getting dirty is soul-work.
There are many opportunities to get involved with Wildlands Restoration Volunteers throughout the summer. I guarantee that you will have a great time, while doing important work.
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Picture: Jenean O'Brien, April 2013.
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