Bringing Nature Back to a Natural Area Preserve

This workday we will be working on a beautiful shoreline at the Woodard Bay Natural Area Preserve north of Olympia. The Washington Department of Natural Resources removed a bulkhead and building and planted native shoreline vegetation.  We will be helping them by removing invasive plants to help these plantings have a good start and to improve understory habitat along the shoreline.

We are helping them out because this is a great stretch of natural shoreline with several ongoing restoration projects including an Olympia oyster project led by The Nature Conservancy and the Puget Sound Restoration Fund.  It is also important salmon habitat for juvenile salmon migrating out of the Nisqually River.  Bring your binoculars as this is also a great place to see birds and a large population of harbor seals.

We encourage carpooling and we may be able to facilitate that if you sign up.  Please sign up beforehand so we make sure to bring enough tools and facilitate carpooling (parking is limited), even if it is the morning of the workday.