The Conservation Alliance hosted our final Backyard Collective event of the year earlier this month in Acme, Washington. Over 30 participants joined us, representing TCA member companies Brooks Running, Duct Tape then Beer, Portside Pro, REI, and Superfeet as well as TCA grantees American Whitewater, Trust for Public Land, and Wilderness Land Trust.
Participants worked in partnership with our host and grantee, Whatcom Land Trust, at an 8 acre property along the South Fork Nooksack River. This property has been overtaken by invasive species, especially blackberries. Volunteers planted, blue tubed and caged 528 trees to create a diverse, resilient forest full of many different native species. Once the conifers grow larger, they will shade out the blackberry and there will be a beautiful understory of native shrubs. The trees will also eventually provide the riparian buffer zone necessary for the area’s salmon population to survive.
Backyard Collective events, first launched in 2009, have long played an important role in connecting member company employees with local grantees for a day of action in a landscape that TCA funding helped protect. Thank you to our participants!
Special thanks to 10 Barrel Brewing for donating beverages for the event!
