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Volunteers yank Pioneer Park ivy in hands-on biodiversity lesson
CLEANING UP PIONEER PARK - Volunteer organizer Chris Johnson (center) tosses pulled ivy onto a pile at Pioneer Park Saturday morning. Johnson hopes to make the ivy removal a regular event to improve the health of native plant species that ivy tends to smother. Maggie Wilder's pooch tried to help.
La Conner residents received an Ivy League education at Pioneer Park on Saturday.
The volunteers, led by trained natural resources specialist Steve Phillips, spent a couple hours removing invasive English ivy from a patch below the town water tower.
It marked the second such work party at the park this fall.
Phillips envisions the ivy removal project continuing monthly through autumn and winter and in the years ahead, if possible.
"We decided to do this now, because summers are so busy, and nobody has the time," he said. "Plus, it doesn't conflict with bird nesting time and the soil is easier...
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