Description
Start Date-End Date: 05/20/2016-05/20/2016
Land Manager Office: CPW - St. Vrain State Park
Land Manager Contact: Ben Pedrett
Funding Partner:
Programmatic Partner: Prospect Ridge Academy
Summary: 8th graders from Prospect Ridge Academy will come to St. Vrain State Park to help remove invasive species.
Description: 8th graders from Prospect Ridge Academy will come to St. Vrain State Park to help remove invasive species.
Latitude/Longitude: 40.167913, -104.983428
Additional Information:
Camping Available: No
Physical Difficulty: Easy
High Altitude Project: No
Desired Number of Volunteers: 100
Total Adult Volunteers Attended: 8
Total Youth Volunteers Attended: 80
Total Volunteer Days: 88
Total Unique Volunteers: 88
Total Volunteer Hours: 352
Staff Hours: 7.5
Stipend Hours: 0
Project Summary: On May 20th, 100 8th graders from Prospect Ridge Academy came out to St. Vrain State Park to help with invasive species removal. The students helped to remove curly dock, musk and scotch thistle, flaxweed and sweet clover. The kids covered 4 acres of weeds.
Successes and Challenges: St. Vrain just has no shade. Challenging with kids, but it was cool enough that they were OK.
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Stewardship Education: Provided by VOC staff earlier in the month at their school with a presentation on stewardship and VOC.
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