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Andrew Clovis, Cindy Brown, and I walked the riverbank area we want to plant. </div>
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<li>Their first impressions: we will need a team of volunteers for regular maintenance for the first year or two.</li><li> We may want to do the project in stages (the slope first, then the flat part of the bank, so that we are not overwhelmed with first-year weeding). </li><li>They also recommend solarizing to kill the existing vegetation after a team goes in and rescues the desirable plants, of which there are many--we will not need to buy or grow any more late asters or wingstem from seed as there are plenty of both.</li></ul>
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I have messaged Geoff Schenkel about the timeline (as the resolution needs to go through two more readings) and will contact Steve Wetz (Safety services director) about the possibility of doing a plant rescue and beginning the solarization ASAP. </div>
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<div>"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."-- Cicero</div>
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