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FLORAL PARK VOLUNTEER PROJECTS 2025 4 Trail maintenance – • add chips to wet sections of trail, • Trail widening by cutting brush to width of three feet, • Pull brush and buckthorn using spade and brush puller. • Tools: gloves, spade, fork, lopper, brush puller, tree girdling tool. Winter Wood duck nesting boxes (5) – November -January: Clean, repair, and re-chip. Box on Colleen/Hamline Pond done best in January or early February while pond is frozen. Access is from Hamline or by pond overflow egress. Home owner has granted access over his land from Colleen. • Box #1: Bridge box • Box #2: Swamp box Trailhead #3 • Box #3: Swamp box by Hamline Trail is serviced by Trista Yont. • Box #4: Pond box in Colleen/Hamline Pond • Box #5: Oak box hung in tree 10 yards to east of Trista’s box. Not currently serviced. Buckthorn Removal Project (park at-large) • seed collecting – pull seed pods off stalks into paper grocery bags. • Buckthorn/brush cutting and removal best done during winter months due to spring wood ticks. • After ground freezes, cut or girdle. • Cut saplings and small trees using loppers and/or small chain saws two inches from ground level . • Girdle large trees and return in early summer/fall to trim suckers. (Hachette, tree girdler) • Treat stumps with herbicide or leave to trim suckers in spring. Plant will eventually die if root stored energy is depleted over spring and summer and not renewed by suckers. Trail maintenance (park at-large): • Brush pile, tree and branch removal • Buckthorn removal (invasive) • Burdock removal (invasive): collect seed pods. • Garlic Mustard removal (invasive) • Repaint trailhead signs (yellow) • Numbered trailheads from the south of the Woodland Trail starting with the o South Trailhead off Floral Park Drive, TH #1; o Bridge Trailhead, TH #2; o Middle Trailhead, TH #3; o Garden Trailhead behind garden #1, TH #4; o Ballfield Trailhead, TH #5; o Hamline Trailhead North, TH #6).