On Saturday, April 18, The Garber Park Stewards celebrated Five years of restoring and protecting the native oak woodland habitat and watershed
of Harwood Creek in Garber Park by participating in the City of Oakland’s Earth
Day. This year our focus was on “freeing
the ferns” in the western part of the park. Volunteers met at the Claremont Ave. entrance and began attacking
the Algerian Ivy along the Claremont Avenue Trail to beautiful Fern Glade, our
newest Restoration site. Freeing the
ferns from the invasive ivy allows the ferns, trilliums, snowberry, false
solomons seal and other natives to thrive and multiply. And multiply they have - the return of the natives along this trail has been phenomenal!
Thanks, everyone, for another fun and successful
morning. We couldn’t do it without you!
While Earth Day has ended our twice monthly stewardship days
continue with a focus on improving Fire Safety by removing the fire prone
invasive weeds throughout the park, and providing defensible space against
wildfire for the many homes adjacent to Garber Park. Won’t you join us? Our May volunteer workdays are: Tuesday, May 6, and Saturday, May 16 from
10am-Noon.