From Jim Corson, Green Seattle Forest Steward:
We at the Friends of the Burke Gilman at Sand Point would like to thank you for coming out on the worst day, I have ever seen on one of our work parties on the Burke Gilman Trail. Cold, blowing winds and heavy rain. It was above and beyond the call of duty and perhaps common sense, but we planted 600 plants and moved our project along immensely. Thank you! Thank you!
If you were wondering about the semi-organized chaos, we were expecting about 60 people and our final count was 129. So we had periodic shortages of shovels, which slowed things down periodically. Our oldest planter was 85 and our youngest was almost 2 years old.
From here, we need to finish clearing the stretch of trail from Metropolitan Market at 40th NE up to Princeton Bridge and then do a more limited planting in that area since there are a lot of native plants there already. After that, we hope to move north to the stretch of trail between NE 65th and NE 70th.
