Earth Day Restoration Event
Date and Time
Monday Apr 22, 2019
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
April 22nd, 2019 from 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Location
West Beach Shelter
Fees/Admission
This is a FREE DAY in the park! A Discover Pass will not be required for day time parking on 4/22/19.
Contact Information
Alise Rector
Interpretive Naturalist
Alise.Rector@parks.wa.gov
Office: (360)675-3767 ext. 231
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Description
Join us this Earth Day at Deception Pass State Park! We will be removing an invasive species that is aggressively outcompeting native plants in our sand dune habitat at West Beach. Around the Salish Sea, European beach grass directly impacts a number of native plant species including American dune grass and Yellow sand-verbena. Yellow sand-verbena happens to be the sole food source of the Sand-verbena moth, a species endemic to our region. This restoration effort is important to our park to allow space for native plant species to repopulate the sand dune habitat and, in turn, stabilize the natural ecosystem. We hope to see you there!
