NEWS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL
Aug. 28, 2008 - Vol. 38, No. 392
For more information, contact Rob Line, Environmental Stewardship Program Manager, 302-739-9220, or Joanna Wilson, Public Affairs, 302-739-9902.
Volunteers Sought for Plant Rescue at Cape Henlopen
Native Plants in Peril from New Sewer Line to Be Restored to Site Next Spring
From 9 a.m. to noon next Saturday, Sept. 6, community volunteers are needed to help with a rescue at Cape Henlopen State Park. The imperiled are native plants including ferns and horsetails that are growing in the path of a soon-to-be-installed new sewer line connecting the new Hawkseye Subdivision with the Wolf Neck Wastewater Treatment Facility along the Junction Breakwater Trail.
“New sewer lines are important and necessary to protect our water quality, but we’d like to protect our native plants too, and many will be destroyed unless we get there first,” said Rob Line, Delaware State Parks Environmental Stewardship Program Manager.
All plants will be placed in pots and removed to a holding facility at Killens Pond State Park in Felton. Next spring, following completion of the sewer project, the “rescued” plants will be returned to the site and re-planted along the right-of-way to help heal the disturbance with native plants.
Everyone is welcome to come out to join Delaware State Parks Environmental Stewardship staff, Friends of Cape Henlopen State Park volunteers and the Monthly Volunteer Trail Day Crew to save these plants. Tools and all materials needed for the rescue will be available on site. Volunteers may bring a pair of work or gardening gloves and a shovel or garden trowel if they wish.
Volunteers may park in the Parks and Recreation parking lot on Wolf Neck Road and walk to the site along the trail north of Wolf Neck Road or bicycle to the site from Lewes, Rehoboth or the Trail Access site at the Tanger Outlet Center.
For more information contact Rob Line, Environmental Stewardship Program Manager, at 302-388-4485 or 302-739-9220.