MOTHER NATURE SERVES YOU 365 DAYS A YEAR THIS FALL, WILL YOU GIVE HER JUST ONE OF YOURS?

Choose one of FIVE Arc of Appalachia Invasive Plant Removal Teams to join this fall and work in your team's adopted preserve for just ONE SINGLE DAY. You won't believe what a difference one day can make.



Each fall as the summer begins to unfold, staff and volunteers gather in the forests to become active and loving caretakers of the land, scanning the landscape and carefully removing the non-native plants that threaten the integrity of the our outstanding floral displays and the ecology of our plant communities. Just one day of your time can make a world of difference for the welfare of our fields and forests. The task is a pleasant one. If you love being outside, healing the land, and you find repetitive tasks to be meditatively peaceful, removing invasive plants can even be slightly addictive! Not to mention the fact it is a glorious time to be out in the woods. Learn more about the threat of Invasive Plants We are in IMMENSE need of volunteers who enjoy healing the land and working outdoors to remove invasive plants from our vulnerable ecosystems. Please consider joining the Arc in its efforts this fall to remove the invasive plants from our preserves. For more information on each volunteer workday and registration click "more information" on the preserve you are interested in.

Sunday, October, 23 at Fort Hill

After your work day enjoy a hands-on primitive cooking dinner, prepared under the leadership of Arc Staffer, Fern Truitt.



Fort hill is an impressive nature preserve in Highland county — 1300 acres protecting several remnants of old growth forest and a 2000 year old ancient ridgetop earthworks. The undisturbed forest of Fort Hill supports over 8oo species of vascular plants, some of them endangered. Join our Fort Hill Mountain Lovers team as they More Information… remove the invasive Ailanthus trees that are beginning to penetrate the forest ecosystem. Friday, October, 28 at Turkeyfoot Woods

Join leaders Reay and Stan!

SEE OUR NEWEST CAMPAIGN PROPERTY AT THE SANCTUARY! The Arc is raising funds to purchase a 45 acre tract right on the Rocky Fork Creek! This property is part of an old farm and has some autumn olives in the native Big Bluestem pastures, and multiflora rose in the woods. Join the Cave Road Crazy Clippers on another clearing victory! More Information… Saturday, October, 29 at Ohio River Bluffs

Enjoy a Rootbeer Float at day's end, provided by your grateful hosts, Nancy Stranahan and Debi Wolterman

Hands down, the Ohio River Bluffs near Manchester in Adams County has the most spectacular wildflower displays in the entire Arc preserve system. This is the best of the last of an Ohio River nature spectacle, the others having already been run over with invasive plants, or lost to human impact. We don’t plan to see this happen to the Bluffs! The Bluffs is for folks in good shape – so join the Bluff Blasters, lose some calories,and save some wildflowers! More Information… Saturday, November, 5 at Ridgeview Farm

Enjoy a home cooked lunch by Director, Nancy Stranahan.

Join Ridgeview’s Biodiversity Brigade at the Sanctuary, where the Arc is demonstrating that bringing biodiversity back to an abandoned farm is indeed possible. The results of a decade of the redemptive work in Ridgeview’s fields and swamp forest have been ASTONISHING! Help clear Autumn Olive shrubs from of the very last field where they remain on the farm! SO EXCITING! More Information… Sunday, November, 6 at Shellbark Woods

Enjoy a lunch provided to you by your leader and Arc Board President, Jean Farkas. You are invited to become a Shellbark Busy Beaver and help protect 36 acres of beautiful wooded property at the Highlands Nature Sanctuary that is FULL of wildflowers but threatened by invasive plants that poured into the property when it was logged, just before it as acquired by the Arc. About 5 years ago a VERY busy beaver family moved onto property, hence our work crew’s name! More Information… If you would like to stop receiving information on volunteer opportunities but would like to continue to receive regular email news from The Arc of Appalachia, you can update your preferences with the link provided below.

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