Sunday, June 14, 2015

Volunteering while Volunteering

Our volunteer job this summer is interacting with beach goers in regard to the plight of the Western Snowy Plover.  One of the beachheads that we work at the most is the Oregon Dunes Loop Trail.  It's over a mile through sands dunes and forest from the parking lot of the Oregon Dunes Day Use Area to the beach on this trail, which probably accounts for the scattered out visitors we see.  There is quite a bit of wait time between hikers, so I've volunteered to cut back some of the terrible Scotch Broom along the trail to fill in my spare time. It actually pays the same.

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  1. Reminds me of the song lyrics: "Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'!"

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    1. Because they could pay you FOUR times your going Plover Rate for your Scotch Broom Eradication, and they'd still pay the same!

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    2. It seems like four time would be more, but then, math was not my major.

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  2. Good job, Jim. Holly

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