Name: Honeysuckle-Palooza 🌿✋Spotted Turtle Trail - AM & PM Shifts
Start: 2025-11-22T08:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-11-22T16:00:00-05:00
Location: Backridge Court - Beaver Creek Wetlands Meeting Area

**This Event Has Two Shifts:**
**✋Morning: 8:30 am to Noon**
**✋Afternoon: 12:30 pm to 4:00 pm**
**✋Come when you can. Leave when you need to!**

11/21 UPDATE: Everything is a go for the Honeysuckle Palooza! You have the option to walk or drive to our project site from the meeting location. Follow the signs. Drivers will take their vehicles off-road, in the prairie a short distance on wide grassy trails. Thank you for volunteering! 🌿🚗🚶🙏

**Spend a few hours giving back to our nature preserves at the Honeysuckle-Palooza and help remove invasive vegetation from the Spotted Turtle Trail! 🍃**

**Meet Here:** https://maps.app.goo.gl/whmEYn9XFAksGU4j7

**Parking:** On-street parking on Lincolnshire and Patriot Way,

Be part of this Honeysuckle-Palooza and help remove honeysuckle, autumn olive, and Callery pear from the Spotted Turtle Trail and the Beaver Creek Wetlands. The invasive vegetation rapidly forms dense shrub layers and chokes out native species.

Removing these invasive species helps native wetland plant species grow and thrive. A chipper will be on-site to grind up the nasty honeysuckle into small pieces.

We need helpers of all kinds! No experience or upper body strength is needed. You will be taught to identify honeysuckle and other invasive species. Come for as long as your schedule allows.

***There is something to do for everyone. We need your help to:***

\* Move the cut-down honeysuckle to the chipper location.

\* Apply treatment to the stumps to prevent the honeysuckle from regrowing.

\* Use loppers and hand saws to cut down honeysuckle and to cut large honeysuckle sections into moveable pieces.

\* Use a chainsaw to cut down the largest honeysuckle plants.

**PROVIDED:**

We will provide safety glasses, and drinking water in jugs to all volunteers.

**WHAT TO BRING:**

**Everyone:** Bring a water bottle. Dress for the weather, wear sturdy footwear, and bring work gloves. Orange or brightly colored clothing is preferred. Bring your own safety glasses, better hearing protection, and a hard hat, if you have them.

**Hand Tool Workers:** Bring loppers and/or hand saws.

**Chainsaw Workers:** Bring your own chainsaw, gas, oil, or battery, and personal protective equipment (chaps, hard hat, hearing protection, and eye protection are highly recommended).

**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](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/](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 to the brand new parking lot.

Meet here: [https://maps.app.goo.gl/ti5VY4kXUsnbCnX6A](https://maps.app.goo.gl/ti5VY4kXUsnbCnX6A)

Any questions? Contact Andy Niekamp at andyniekamp@gmail.com or 937-475-5417

**Dayton Hikers FAQs:** [https://daytonhikers.com/faq/](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/](https://daytonhikers.com/waiver/)

Andy Niekamp

Beaver Creek Wetlands Assoc.

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