Glacial Heritage Prairie Restoration Work Party, Thurston County

Every Tuesday
9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Please join The Nature Conservancy and its wonderful volunteers on our beautiful south sound prairies! Every Tuesday dedicated volunteers gather at the Glacial Heritage prairie preserve to complete important environmental restoration work. Activities range from burning brush piles, planting native wildflowers and grasses to native plant seed collection and cleaning. With your help we can preserve and protect our beautiful and rare prairies that are called home to an abundance of life.  
Bring a lunch/water, weather appropriate clothes and we'll provide the rest.  Work begins at 9 am and continues until 3 pm, you may work for however long suits you.

Directions:
Take I-5 to exit 95 (the Littlerock exit) about 10 miles south of Olympia.  Go west through Littlerock (past the gas station and tavern) to the T-intersection at Mima Road/Waddell Creek. Go south (left) on Mima Road 2.7 miles.  You will pass an obscure green and white sign on the right that says "Weyerhauser Mima Nursery" at the beginning of fields of tiny evergreen trees.  Take the next left onto an unmarked gravel road, where there is tree farm on the near side of the intersection and a few houses on the far side of the intersection.  Please be sure to adhere to the 15 mph speed limit on this road as there are often dogs and small children active nearby. Follow the road to its end and park near the gate.
For more information please e-mail Eli Evans, Restoration Specialist and Volunteer Coordinator, at eevans@tnc.org.