On Saturday, September 28th from 8:30 to 11:00 a.m., we are celebrating National Public Lands Day by removing Castor Bean (Ricinus communis) and Indian Tobacco (Lobelia inflata) from the trail near the Tregnan Golf Academy.  You may park in the Train/Pony Rides Parking Lot and then walk across the street to the picnic table where we will have a Welcome Table set-up.  The address for the Train Ride is 4400 Crystal Springs Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90027.  Before anyone may volunteer in Griffith Park, they must first complete one of our Volunteer Agreements.  These forms will be available at the Welcome Table, if you have not already completed one of our forms.  While at the Welcome Table, you will be able to sign-in and receive safety instruction and directions to the site.  After some brief remarks about the project, we will all hike up the Cadman Trail next to the Golf Academy and divide into small groups to tackle the invasive plants.   The invasive plants will be cut down, and the seed pods carefully cut off and bagged up.  The plants themselves will be hauled off by Maintenance Division of the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks.  The seed pods will be placed into trash cans.  The area of focus is several acres!

We strongly recommend that everyone wear closed-toed shoes or boots, long pants, a hat, and sunscreen.  We will supply work gloves and water, but if volunteers have their own gloves and water container, they should bring them.  We have a limited amount of pruning tools.  If you have gardening pruning tools such as hand pruners, loppers, tree limb saws, bow saws, and or pole pruners, please bring them with you.

If you get enough people to volunteer on this day, we should be able to remove all the invasives in the lower area, and we should be able to move higher up the trail to other areas of invasive plants.