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SOLVing IT at Glendoveer

Darlene Vinson
The Mid-County Memo
Nicole Johnson (left), a volunteer crew leader for Metro and Sandra Krueger, a Metro volunteer, spent Earth Day removing debris and pulling ivy in the natural area at Glendoveer Golf Course.
MEMO PHOTO: TIM CURRAN
Glendoveer Golf Course at Northeast 140th Avenue and Glisan Street was the site for an event called SOLV IT During Earth Day 2006 last month. Volunteers fanned out around the region to clean up neighborhoods and natural areas, lend a hand with trail maintenance and watershed restoration and other community improvements. Metro sites included Smith and Bybee Wetlands Natural Area, Beggars-tick Wildlife Refuge and a natural area in the northwest corner of Glendoveer Golf Course.

At Glendoveer, volunteers were found removing English Ivy and cleaning up debris. Beth Gergick, a volunteer coordinator for Metro, was overseeing the work there. Pointing to Trilliums, a native northwest plant blooming on the forest floor, Gergick said native flowers there had been all but eliminated by the overgrowth and storm damage covering the ground.

Nearby, neighborhood activist Linda Robinson was freeing Rhododendrons from the grip of ivy tendrils.
Bob Hungerford of Clackamas clears unwanted vegetation from the natural area at Glendoveer Golf Course. He spends a few hours each week working to remove introduced species such as English Ivy that choke out natives. The work he and other volunteers do there has been rewarded by the emergence of trilliums in the forested understory.
MEMO PHOTO: TIM CURRAN
Laila Hungerford, a Metro volunteer, heard about the need at Glendoveer and suggested her husband, Bob, look into it. He now spends a day or so a week working on clearing the natural area.

SOLV IT, a combined effort of SOLV and Metro, is the largest Earth Day event of its kind in the nation.

Governor Tom McCall and others established SOLV in 1969 as a nonprofit organization to channel the resources and energies of government agencies, businesses and individual volunteers to enhance the liability of Oregon.

Metro is an elected council charged with preserving and enhancing the quality of life and the environment in Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington counties

Earth Day originated as a grass roots effort in 1970. It brought the issues of environmental quality and resources conservation to the forefront in the United States.

To volunteer at Metro you can either call 503-797-1700, or visit the Metro Web site, www.metro-region.org/, and search for “volunteer.”
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