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Event Series Event Series: 2024 Stewardship Weekends

May Refuge Stewardship Weekend

May 17 @ 4:00 pm - May 19 @ 12:00 pm

Come and join with other volunteers for this Malheur Refuge Stewardship Weekend. This weekend’s projects include assemby of a Pinic Pavillion at the new Volunteer Campground, transplanting native grasses into the privacy screens, and work on a footopath to the common room. We will weed any areas needing it and possibly move picnic tables to site. After these projects, the new campground will be ready for use!

To fill out the weekend, we will work on cleaning and improving the polinator plant beds bordering the Crane’s Nest Nature Center & Store. This will include preparing the beds for planting and adding to the polinator plant communities there. In preparation of a future  new Nature Center sign, we will clear a space for xeriscaping and sign installation. This will require placing landscape cloth and lanscape gravel on cleared areas.

Lastly we will continue the habitat improvement around the Nature Center by sprucing up the pollinator plant demonstration  garden, installing several bird bath dishes, and adding landscape rocks where needed to protect a great basin wild rye plant area.

Week-end schedule:

  • Arrive at Malhuer Field Station Friday after 4:00 PM (check-in time) 
  • Stewardship Projects on Saturday from 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM + Breaks
  • Stewardship Projects on Sunday from 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM + Breaks; If the projects are completed on Saturday, Sunday morning will be open for volunteers to enjoy the Refuge.

We need a minimum of 10 volunteers to sign up and we hope that YOU will be one of them!

Housing at the Malheur Field Station in Dorm A will be provided by the Friends.

Donations to support housing costs are welcome.

REGISTER HERE

For more information please contact Alice Elshoff at 541 389-3543 or calice58@gmail, with a cc to [email protected] 

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May 17 @ 4:00 pm
End:
May 19 @ 12:00 pm
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Venue

Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
36391 Sodhouse Ln
Princeton, OR 97721

Organizer

Friends of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
Phone
(541) 493-2612
Email
friends@malheurfriends.org
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