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💪🏽 CRWP will be hosting a weed plucking contest at Salmon Jam!
👜 Bring a SEALED BAG of orange hawkweed buds/flowers to weigh at out our booth at the Salmon Jam festival. We will have a kitchen scale at the booth, and a box for all of the flower heads to be put into for our plant team to burn later.
🏆 Every participant receives a sticker. Whoever harvests the most weight will win a prize they can select from the CRWP shop!
‼️Pluck ONLY THE BUDS at the top of the plant. If the plant has already gone to seed, don`t touch it or it will spread further. *Please do not harvest on private property without permission.
Good luck pluckers - have fun out there!
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🍭We have a special merch treat for the Salmon Jammer`s this year — sweatpants!!
👖Designed with this year`s Salmon Jam artwork, the sweatpants will be for sale at Salmon Jam on Friday and Saturday. Come get this hot new item at the merch table during the festival while supplies last. (Sweatpants are only available for purchase at the festival, Friday and Saturday.)
🎉We`re super excited to see you at Salmon Jam!
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‼️SALMON JAM LOCATION CHANGE!
🌧️ For the safety and comfort of our volunteers, community, and participants, we`ve made the decision to move the Salmon Jam festival indoors to Mt. Eccles Elementary School due to incoming weather.
🏫 We`ll be rockin` and having a blast inside where it`s dry, so bring your boogie shoes (they won`t even get muddy)! Our headlining band, The Wet Spots, will keep you dancing along with Cordova`s own local bands and musicians. Small Fry activities will be super fun for the kiddos, and our Artisan Market will be on full display. All the Salmon Jam fun under one (dry) roof! (Shuttle service will be available.)
👉🏼 👉🏼 👉🏼NEW LOCATION: Mt. Eccles Elementary School. All updates will be posted here and on the Salmon Jam Facebook/Instagram pages.
We`ll see you soon at Salmon Jam (indoors)!!
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🤩 CORDOVA - Happening NOW.....Salmon Jam Merch Pre-Sale in front of the CRWP office on Main Street! Beat the crowds and come get your merch early! The merch pre-sale is from 11-1pm TODAY!
🥳Happy Salmon Jam Week!!!!
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🤩 Salmon Jam Merch pre-sale on Wednesday, July 15, 11am - 1pm, in front of the Copper River Watershed Project office on Main Street!
👕 Salmon Jam merch goes fast every year. Come to our pop-up merch sale on Wednesday and get yours first! That means you`ll have pick of all the sizes and colors, so you can roll in to Salmon Jam already rocking your t-shirt!
👉🏼 After 1pm tomorrow (Wednesday), merch will only be available at Salmon Jam on Friday and Saturday.
(**No online or website sales available. Must buy merch at pre-sale event or at the merch booth during Salmon Jam.)
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😍 CORDOVA - Salmon Jam Merch Bulletin!!
👕 There will be a Salmon Jam Merchandise Preview and Pre-sale on Wednesday, July 15, 11am - 1pm, in front of the Copper River Watershed Project office on Main Street. This is your chance to get first dibs on the new apparel for this year`s Salmon Jam. After 1 pm, the merchandise will be packed up and won`t be available for sale again until Friday and Saturday at Salmon Jam.
(**No online or website sales available. Must purchase merch at pre-sale event or at the merch booth during Salmon Jam.)
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CORDOVA - Our Plant Technicians are working on clipping and managing reed canarygrass near the Eyak Lake Weir. A lot of people walk through areas that are infested with reed canarygrass to fish at the weir. This is a reminder to clean your boots before leaving the weir site to prevent the spread of seeds to new areas, especially farther out on the delta.
And please clean any elodea off waders to keep it from spreading to other bodies of water as well.
No matter where you recreate on or around Eyak Lake, this is the time of year to have extra awareness of invasive plants. Don`t let those seeds hitch a ride on your clothes, gear, boats, waders, shoes, and pets!
Together, we can all help stop the spread of invasive plants near Eyak Lake!
📷 1-3 Maddie Tharp/CRWP - Photo 1: Reed canarygrass growing near Eyak Lake Weir. Photo 2: Clipping reed canarygrass before it goes to seed. Photo 3: Eyak Lake Weir. Photo 4: Stock Image of Elodea.
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❗️We need volunteers to help with Salmon Jam merch! If you have a few hours to spare, come hang out with a super fun crew and help get our cool new designs out to the masses!
👉🏼 We`re looking for 8 or 10 more people who can cover 2-hour shifts on:
Friday 5-7:30
Friday 7:30-9:30
Saturday 3-5
Saturday 5-7
Saturday 7-9
Email info@copperriver.org if you`re interested. Volunteers get a $15 discount on a Salmon Jam ticket!
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CORDOVA - `Tis the season to pluck orange hawkweed buds and flowers before they go to seed and continue spreading! Our small team of plant technicians is working hard to remove reed canarygrass right now, so we`re asking the community to help control orange hawkweed while it`s in Stage 2.
Stage 2 = Bud-to-Flower stage. ‼️ DO NOT pull, mow, or dig the plant. The best option is to pluck the buds and flower heads and bag, then burn them to prevent this highly invasive plant from seeding and spreading. Once clipped they can STILL GO TO SEED and deposit seeds that are viable for 7 years. Don`t leave them on the ground or throw them in trash where they can seed the dump and continue spreading.
Thank you for helping to keep this invasive from spreading around Cordova!
👉🏼 Want to learn more about his invasive plant? Visit https://copperriver.org/programs/invasive-plant-management/high-priority-species-in-the-watershed/
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Last week in Cordova, 18 volunteers, including 5 youth who gave their time volunteering with us toward Give Back Hours for school, tackled a large patch of Orange hawkweed. The crew plucked seed heads of this highly invasive plant by the baseball field, and a growing patch across the road from the field at a city snow dump. The volunteers were super helpful, and we they accomplished all of that work in 2.5 hours (with a quick hot cocoa and cookie break in the middle)!
THANK YOU to everyone who volunteered to help keep this invasive plant in check in Cordova!
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Learn more about this and other invasive plants in our region at https://copperriver.org/programs/invasive-plant-management/high-priority-species-in-the-watershed/
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📷 Maddie Tharp/CRWP - Photo 1-3: Volunteers tackling the dense infestation of orange hawkweed by the baseball field. Photo 4: Volunteers doing a `last-ditch effort` to tackle orange hawkweed on a site across the road from the baseball field. Photo 5: The flower buds that the volunteers worked together to collect. The buds were then burned to prevent them from going to seed and spreading to more places.
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CORDOVA - Does anyone have a play tent or a tent that we could borrow for upcoming kids` activities? We ordered one, but would like to make sure we have a backup in case it doesn`t arrive in time.
Thank you!
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🌿The Native Plant Garden event last week celebrating native plants & pollinators, was fun for kids and parents! There were strolls through the garden, crafting, rock painting, and much information shared on native plants in our region and why they are good for pollinators.
🎨The rocks that were painted during the event are on display at the Native Plant Garden. It`s a great place to wander and take an outside break, so go visit and check out the colorful rocks and all the plants buzzing with pollinators when you get a chance.
🫶🏽The CRWP plant team thanks everyone for coming to the event and making it a fun time - we hope you`ll come again next year!
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👉🏼To learn more about native plants, visit https://copperriver.org/programs/invasive-plant-management/native-plants/
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📷 Kim Casavan/Kate Morse/Maddie Tharp-CRWP: Kids learning about native plants while walking through the native plant garden then making crafts and painting rocks that you can find in the garden at Odiak Pond.
Salmon Jam Merch is Here!
It’s Salmon Jam Week and we’re super excited to boogie down with you this Friday and Saturday at the Copper River Salmon Jam festival!
Come to the merch booth at Salmon Jam on Friday and Saturday to get this year’s Salmon Jam merch with artwork by Maggie Rose! For the first time, we’re offering sweatpants designed with this year’s awesome art. Merch goes fast – get yours while it lasts!
Join us for a FREE float trip on the Gulkana River to pull invasive white sweetclover!
On Thursday, July 23 we’ll be floating the Gulkana River to remove invasive white sweetclover from the banks and sandbars in the Floatable Weed Smackdown!
CRWP will provide trash bags, hand tools, gloves, life jackets, and dry bags for participants to use. Please be sure to pack your own snacks, water, and proper clothes for possible wind, rain or direct heat with limited shade.
WHEN: Thursday, July 23, 1:00 pm
WHERE: Meet at the Gulkana Bridge
We’re Hiring!
The Copper River Watershed Project is seeking a Stewardship Engagement Specialist to provide educational stewardship experiences for youth and adult participants throughout the Copper River watershed.
Programs will largely be field-based and involve hands-on stewardship activities, including stream and lake clean-ups, habitat restoration, removal of invasive species, collection of native seeds, involving youth and adults in activities that result in positive, tangible impacts to the watershed.
⬇️ For more information on how to apply, click the button below.
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