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Rebecca, Since we will shift to cooler temperatures, the legislation could be sped up if it would make a difference this year. <div><br></div><div>I pressing for a seeding of the area being disturbed behind the armory because growing season is waining. Roger<br><br><br><a href="https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/?.src=iOS">Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone</a><br><br><p class="yahoo-quoted-begin" style="font-size: 15px; color: #715FFA; padding-top: 15px; margin-top: 0">On Saturday, October 17, 2020, 7:25 PM, Rebecca Phillips via Green <green@fuusm.org> wrote:</p><blockquote class="iosymail"><div id="yiv8161598963">
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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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