May 26 Our crew spent the day watering restoration sites and planning a volunteer planting event for a large group over Memorial Day weekend.
May 27 Sierra Club volunteers arrive and assist with watering Mather Point restoration sites.
May 28 Sierra Club's 119th anniversary! To celebrate, 11 Sierra Club volunteers helped us to install new plantings at Mather Point restoration sites. After a full day's work we headed out to Shoshone Point for a barbecue, a birthday cake and a magnificent sunset.
May 29 Sierra Club volunteers help us finish planting. They are model volunteers, finishing the site quicker and more neatly than we anticipated, with entertaining stories along the way. Cliff rejoins us after a trip to the North Rim to cut trees down with our Hazard Tree Coordinator.
May 30 Memorial Day: The Sierra Club volunteers spent a final morning pulling invasive plants at the Visitor Center Plaza, while we prepared the sites for a Grand opening in June. Our crew spent the afternoon watering restoration sites.
May 31 A visiting artist presents an anatomical sketching lesson in grasses. For some of our crew the class was our introduction to grass anatomy. Paperwork for watering and invasive plant removal filled our afternoon, and we managed to water some restoration sites as well.
June 1-2 The Native Plant Corps watered more restoration sites.