Month: April 2016

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Upcoming events!

Saturday April 23 at 9 AM: We invite you to join members of Friends and others interested in the Park and Woods in a narrated trail walk.

Saturday April 30 from 9:30 to 11:30 AM: Join other Friends members and volunteers in a work session. Meet at Butternut Shelter in Lee Park. We’ll be removing honeysuckle, pulling garlic mustard, working on the gardens, and picking up trash.

Saturday, April 30 from 12 to 2: We’ll be celebrating our accomplishments after the work session in a potluck lunch at 12 noon at Butternut shelter in Lee Park.

Other events will be announced during the year.

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Spring Newsletter

Here it is April already – time to get going to help out with the Park and Woods. We have been very successful in developing membership, obtaining non-profit tax status, and forming an excellent Board of Directors, as well as establishing a good working relationship with the City of Ames Parks and Recreation Department. This year we will begin working on projects to protect and improve the Park and Woods we all love.

Our priorities for 2016 include the following:

  • Purchase and install two trailside park benches; one in Lee Park and one in Munn Woods.
  • Adopt several flower gardens in Lee Park, with a focus on monarch butterfly and pollinator insect conservation.
  • Establish a four-acre preserve for native plants and trees in Lee Park.
  • Continue efforts to remove invasive buckthorn, Asian honeysuckle, and garlic mustard from the Park and Woods.
  • Establish a working website (visit www.leemunnfriends.wordpress.org) and a Facebook page.
  • Conduct several nature walks in the spring and fall.

Other items

We are starting to post our Board of Directors minutes on the website so you can see what the heck we are up to. We are consulting with Ames Parks and Rec about creation of a stream crossing and signage at the east trail entrance to Munn Woods.