3/22/10 - 4/2/10
The entire crew arrived promptly on Sunday afternoon and settled into the labor cabins. The training week moved along quite nicely. Jill Kolodzne was here to help for the first three days and made the week more interesting so the crew didn’t have to listen to Molly talk all week. Thursday was Cynthia’s birthday and we celebrated with a piñata and chocolate cake at the end of the day. Good times were had. The second week that the team was here we joined forces with the SCA Spring Break group. On Monday and Tuesday, we learned proper tool usage and how to salvage plants at YACC camp and at Desert View. YACC camp will be converted into some much needed government housing in the near future, so we saved as many plants as was possible. On Thursday and Friday we got our first taste of working at our project site. The 29 Spring Breakers, 4 ACE interns, 1 SCA intern, several park service employees, and our crew planted around 1400 plants at GCVC in zone "P-5 and P-6". (This area is near lots 1& 2 south of Mather Point.)
