Tom Redfern, Rural Action Sustainable
Agriculture Coordinator
740-742-4401
Elise George, Rural Action Sustainable
Forestry
Coordinator
740-742-4401
our sponsors:
Frontier
Natural
Products Co-op
Hocking College
United Plant Savers
Wayne National Forest
The Plant Rescue Project
Bulldozers and chainsaws are scheduled to clear hundreds of acres in the Wayne National Forest near Nelsonville, Ohio in preparation for paving the new US Highway 33 bypass.Rural Action, along with co-sponsors Wayne National Forest, Hocking College, United Plant Savers, Frontier Natural products Co-op and a number of individual and organizational collaborators, will be rescuing native plants in the bypass zone in fall 2006 and spring 2007.
Three rescue outings are being planned for the fall. Volunteers will physically remove designated plants from approximately 200 acres and transplant them into holding beds.
Several holding beds (approximately 200 x 12 feet) were built and prepared at Wayne National Forest, and preliminary rescue outings were held this spring and summer.
To learn more about a few of the many native plant species you might encounter as a member of the rescue team, visit our Plants to Watch pages, a medicinal plant index project of the Rural Action Research and Education Center.
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save these dates:
Saturday
March 24
Plant Rescue: 9:30 - 3:30
Saturday
April 14
Plant Rescue: 9:30 - 3:30
Volunteers
must register before the rescue.
To register, please contact Tom Redfern or
Elise George
at 740-742-4401.
Email: tomr@ruralaction.org
or
elise@ruralaction.org
We
will meet at Wayne
National Forest Headquarters in the parking lot. Bring water and sunscreen,
and dress for the woods. Lunch will be provided.
Anyone may participate: each rescue outing includes training on plant identification and replanting.
These
events provide an opportunity to become skilled at differentiating between
native and non-native plants and to take part in
saving some of the genetic heritage of our forest herbs.