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Volunteer weed whacking The Friends of the VI National Park’s morning volunteer program is catching on. Here’s before and after evidence of a little lawn care at the Lameshur Bay mill and bay rum boiler. You can lend a hand anytime you want. Volunteer outings are every Thursday and Saturday morning. More info here.  6 Responses to “Volunteer weed whacking”Leave a Reply |
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March 22nd, 2008 09:43
Am I the only person who likes the “before” picture better?
March 22nd, 2008 15:17
The Thursday March 27th work project will be a new vista clearing at the Annaberg School.
Pick-up and departure is promptly 8am at the Park Maintenance Lot, then 8:15 at Cinnamon Bay Camp and 8:30 at Maho then to the work site.
The Saturday March 29th work project will be the Cinnamon Bay Grave sites both by the Slave Hut to the right of the Mill and the set of graves on the interpretive trail.
We will be leaving the Park Maintenance Lot by 8:15 and going directly to the Cinnamon Bay work site ONLY.
PS if you have not been out on a hike recently plan on visiting the Murphy Great House off the Johnny Horn Trail- it’s spectacular!
March 22nd, 2008 16:50
Ajr, yeah, the before picture is a little nicer (greener), maybe they could have kept just a few of the plants?
I’m going to try and do some volunteering on my next STJ visit this summer.
March 22nd, 2008 18:29
Dave,
I am a plant lover, believe me, but those plants in the first photo wanted to grow up to be eighty foot trees. They had to go, trust me!
-Ruth
March 24th, 2008 20:43
Hi Respondents
The site above is the Lameshur Plantation and Bay Rum Mill. It was cut with loppers only removing the invasive brushy weeds which primarily is Tan/Tan “wild Tameran” With the island sliding into a sever drought most of the slush vegitation had already gone dorment. When the rains return this side will really look pretty good! It was not weed wacked though I agree that once the brushy stuff was removed it looked pretty bare. We try to not make a site look clearcut, but this site had no landscaping vegitation what so ever. Something to be delt with as the Virgin Islands Research Station intends to make this a classroom in the not to distant future. Other ruins restoration project photos are availabe by contacting me at JeffChabot@aol.com and requesting to be added to the Volunteer update list.
April 4th, 2008 22:23
This is a great thing, and I really wanted to volunteer… it’s just that the “promptly 8 am” thing sort of gets in the way of sleeping in and a lazy breakfast. But next time I’ll be there, honest.