A habitat restoration event will be held from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at Soos Creek Park on June 14. The event is being held by the Sierra Club’s South King County Group and Rainier Audubon Society, in coordination with King County Parks.

Meet at Gary Grant Park in Kent (on the north side of 208th street and just east of 132nd Street). To reach the work site, just walk a few hundred yards on the trail south of the 208th Street parking lot.

The area where we’ll be working was previously infested with invasive non-native plants such as blackberries and scotch broom. Over the last several years that has been cleared and replanted with native species. The focus of this event will be to remove newly rebounding populations of invasives and  clear around our native plantings to assure the site continues to recover.

Tools, drinks, and snacks will be provided, but please bring your own work gloves (we’ll have some on hand if you don’t have them) and dress for the work and weather as this is a rain-or-shine event. For more information, please contact Mark Johnston at markjtn@earthlink.net or 253-639-3862.