Honeysuckle Pull & Wood Chip Spreading 🍃✋🆘

Help restore the area where we removed massive amounts of honeysuckle last November on the Spotted Turtle Trail in the Dave Nolin Reserve.

Your help is needed to pull sprouting honeysuckle and to spread wood chips on the forest floor so they decompose quicker. No experience is needed. For all ages.

New honeysuckle sprouts can be easily pulled and left on the ground. We may need to cut a few honeysuckle plants with a loppers, saw, or hand pruners.

A tractor will be onsite to help load wood chips into wheelbarrows. The chips will be transported into the woods to be dispersed for quicker decomposing.

Tools To Bring: Work gloves, shovel, rake, saws, pruners, and a wheelbarrow if you have one.

Dress for the weather and bring water and snacks.

WHAT TO DO BEFORE ARRIVING

Please complete the online waiver for BCWA. All volunteers must sign one, and it's valid for all year. https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/qjPior4Pl8vvMKXOenPNQw

Before, upon arrival, or after, please submit your volunteer hours. Use this link: https://beavercreekwetlands.org/volunteer/submit-volunteer-hours/

Be sure to select "Yes! I am a Dayton Hiker" On the BCWA volunteer hours form. This ensures your hours count as sponsorship dollars for the Spotted Turtle Trail!

WHERE TO MEET:
Take Heatherwood Trail to South Deer Hollow Trail.
Follow South Deer Hollow Trail until it ends.
Follow the gravel road in the field to the end.

Meet here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ti5VY4kXUsnbCnX6A

Dayton Hikers FAQs: https://daytonhikers.com/faq/

The Legal Stuff: The event hosts are just fellow member volunteers, not your hiking guides or guru. By participating in this event, you assume all risks of liability and injury inherent in hiking activities. You are responsible for your own safety and for determining if you are in a condition fit to participate. If you have any doubts, you should consult your doctor. You are also responsible for knowing and abiding by all laws and hiking rules during your participation on this hike. By participating in this event you agree to the Dayton Hikers legal waiver here: https://daytonhikers.com/waiver/