Habitat Garden Installation on Father's Day, 6/19/11

As some of you know, (and are directly involved) NWF is partnering with Butterfly Pavilion and Colorado Native Plant Society in an effort to provide ongoing training to our volunteers. We have a very neat opportunity to improve wildlife habitat along the South Platte near Alameda and I-25 at Denver's Johnson Habitat Park. This is very cool for a couple of reasons: 1. The area we will improve is alongside the South Platte River Environmental Education (SPREE) building. 2. The site is the "base camp" or kick-off site for a growing project called the Children's Forest Corridor. The corridor will provide a continuum of opportunities for kids and families to engage in the outdoors along the South Platte. This habitat will be a demonstration site -helping kids and families understand what a native wild flower garden looks like, and how they can create one in their own yard or community space.


We have scheduled the installation of the habitat (dig and plant!) for Sunday, June 19, at 9 AM and we would love to have you there! If you have young people that would like to participate in this planning just let me know. As long as they are old enough to help with digging, planting or watering and can stay clear of the river, we'd love to have them too.

The site address is: 610 South Jason St. Denver, CO 80223 This link provides directions: http://www.auroramedteam.org/maps/jhabitat.pdf

PLEASE RSVP to me, so I can bring enough equipment and snacks, My cell phone is 720-273-5247
We'll give a shout out to any and all dad's that elect to join us on their day too!
I hope to hear from you soon.

Julie Gustafson
303-441-5152