Wilderness Restoration Project... with Heavy Machinery!
Hi Friends!
I spent my day out up in the mountains by a beautiful river. Me and about 30 other volunteers helped to clear out invasive plants to protect the natural habitat of the area. We cleared out a deep rooted invasive species called sage brush that was choking the natural landscape - and threatening the wildlife in the area. This section of river is pivotal to the spawning salmon in spring and protecting this land will help ensure they make a successful run upriver.
A local construction company brought in 10 excavators to help accelerate the process! The owner of that company offered to teach me how to drive and use one! Needless to say, I had a lot of fun!
This video includes various footage from the day, including my time on the excavator and our lovely picnic lunch down by the river. Even though today had a 100% chance of rain - we were lucky that the heavy rain held off until we were almost finished working.
I hope you enjoy this video I put together from the day! I live in a beautiful area of the world and felt really proud to spend the day helping to preserve some of it's wild spaces. I also had a lot of fun volunteering with a few of my friends and getting to meet a bunch of new people!
My video is at DLive
Haha Lea, that's cool.
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hahah totally!! What a cute song. I love the artwork and the kid singing in the video!
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That's awesome, Lea! The time-honored Northwest tradition of clearing Scotch Broom... quite possibly the world's most invasive plant. You done did a good thing, thumbs up!
haha I'm glad there's another Northwestener around to get what I'm talking about here! Scotch Broom is some crazy, gnarly stuff. I volunteered on this site last year and we just had some metal weed pullers and picks to get try and pull this stuff out. With the excavators this year - we cleared in 30 minutes what it took us to do in 3 hours last time! It was really cool to see how quickly we could work with some heavy machinery.
I enjoyed watching the video, really incredible.
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Thanks my friend!
You are always doing adventurious thing in your life that is great..
I saw the video it is wonderful like you..
nice