Give Back on GivingTuesday! Join Us for a Healthy Forests Day of Action

This GivingTuesday, roll up your sleeves and help keep our local forests healthy! Scenic Rivers is teaming up with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and Save our Trees (a program of Anne Arundel County Watershed Stewards Academy) for a special Healthy Forests volunteer workday removing invasive English ivy from trees at the Philip Merrill Environmental Center in Annapolis. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s beautiful waterfront campus is protected by a Scenic Rivers & MET conservation easement, and we’re excited to work together to care for this special place! Our GivingTuesday volunteers braved cold, rainy weather last year and still got an incredible amount of work done. We’re hoping for a little more sunshine this year, and we’ll celebrate a job well done with pizza on the deck overlooking the Bay!

As part of Scenic Rivers Healthy Forests program, volunteers will work in designated areas of the conservation easement to remove English ivy from trees. Invasive vines can damage and weaken trees. Removing harmful invasive vines is an important step toward protecting the health of our local forests.

No experience necessary! We’ll provide training on how to identify and safely remove English ivy.

Scenic Rivers and Save Our Trees will provide work gloves and tools, though volunteers are welcome to bring their own.

What to Wear and Bring:

• Wear long sleeves, long pants, and closed-toe shoes. Poison ivy is present in the work areas.
• Bring a full water bottle.
• Dress for the weather! We’ll be working outdoors in early December.

Keeping our forests healthy takes teamwork! GivingTuesday is the perfect opportunity to make a difference right here in our community. We hope you’ll join us!

Questions? Contact Scenic Rivers Stewardship and Engagement Coordinator, Luke Lanham, at Luke@srlt.org or 443.714.7756.