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Cedar Creek cleanup and restoration: help our volunteer crew

Volunteers are restoring Cedar Creek in Dresden; $1,650 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.

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Rainer Krause
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Dresden
Cedar Creek has been used as an informal dump for years. This May, 106 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 122 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good. We have a plan agreed with the municipal water board, including native species selected by a local botanist. The area floods more each year, and fish have returned for the first time in a decade after our first cleanup. Restoring it will protect homes and bring back shade. All the labor is volunteered. We just need materials. We'll post planting day photos and a count of every sapling planted. Where the $1,650 goes: • Waste removal and skip hire: $260 • Native saplings and stakes: $1,150 • Signage and educational materials: $240 Thank you so much.
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

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  1. Thank you all. We're at 75% now ($1,245). I'm honestly stunned. we've started the first stage.

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  • Mariana L. Jiménez

    I hope things turn around soon. The breakdown of costs made it easy to trust. Thinking of Dresden

    • Lilian Bukola Eze

      Sending love, Rainer. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer.

      • Mercy M. Manalo

        rooting for you. Hope you get there. God bless.

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