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Applegater Spring 2023 Bye-bye blackberries at Provolt Recreation Site BY CALEB GALLOWAY AND JANELLE DUNLEVY Opened spread acorns to the public across all sites to in 2020, encourage the the Provolt more natural, Recreation oak-dominated Site (PRS) has habitat that provided new was originally opportunities on-site. These t o e n j oy t h e efforts will Applegate improve public River. Hiking, use and entice horse riding, Provolt Recreation Site recently received more wildlife education, BLM Secure Rural Schools Title II funding into the area. volunteering, to help address invasive species including Himalayan How can and swimming you help? The blackberry, starthistle, and poison hemlock. are just a few involvement of of the activities our community taking place. With increasing use and can never be underestimated. Volunteers ongoing restoration, improving the site is will be a key part of this project. If you are more pertinent than ever. New trails, new interested in helping with this or any other sites, and site improvements, including activity at the Provolt Recreation Site, then a vault toilet and picnic benches, are in the Provolt Volunteer Team (PVT) is for you. Led by Liz Shen, local landowner, the works. One important project is the removal volunteer, PRS user, and APWC staff, of invasive plants. A plague of on-site the PVT is the main conduit for helping invasive species, including blackberry improve this community site. and star thistle, is allowing these noxious Ranging from trail building and plants to spread off-site and into our trail maintenance to site planning and beautiful watershed. Invasive plants are rehabilitation, the Provolt Volunteer Team also diminishing the diverse habitat of has been pivotal in advancing the Provolt the recreation site and blocking access to Recreation Site. If you would like to learn some areas. more about these opportunities, contact The Applegate Partnership & Watershed Liz Shen at provoltvolunteerteam@apwc. Council (APWC) is excited to announce info or Caleb Galloway at calebg@apwc. that we have received funding from the info. You can find additional information Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) at applegatepartnership.org/upcoming- Secure Rural Schools Title II funding events. The APWC would also appreciate opportunity to continue the removal of the donation of acorns for this project, noxious and invasive plants at the PRS. We preferably from local black or Oregon will partner with local volunteers, schools, white oak trees. and the BLM for this project. With these Let’s all work together to help improve many hands, we can accomplish this our watershed, our community, and our daunting task more easily. public sites. Removal will take place over the Caleb Galloway next three years, targeting Himalayan calebg@apwc.info blackberry, poison hemlock, yellow star Janelle Dunlevy thistle, bachelor’s buttons, Dyer’s woad, Executive Director and more. Following removal, we will sow Applegate Partnership & native grass and forb seed to diversify our Watershed Council native plant communities. We will also janelle@apwc.info, 541-899-9982 Remember! Daylight Saving Time begins Sunday, March 12. Set your clock ahead one hour to stay in sync with your neighbors. 21 NEXT GENERATION | SCHOOL NEWS Woodland Charter School to add kindergarten BY CHRIS CARMIENCKE Woodland Charter School, in Murphy, continues to have a wonderful 2022-2023 school year. We have maintained our enrollment of 180 students in grades one through eight with 25 stable staff members and many parent volunteers who have created an exciting learning A rainbow as seen from Woodland Charter School. community with a Waldorf- Photo: Brittanie McKirachan. inspired curriculum. We are thrilled about the academic and personal learning to play and are excited to become success of our students and are looking competent ukulele players. One bit of big Woodland news is that forward to continuing to have a positive and we are planning to bring kindergarten to productive school year. We had several wonderful events in Woodland Charter School for the fall of December and January. In early December 2023! Although this will not be official until our students celebrated the power of light, in we announce we are registering kindergarten a time when darkness is so prevalent, through students, we are moving forward with our an event called the Spiral of Light. Each grade plans to make this dream a reality. We will level met in a darkened room with soft music keep the readers of the Applegater posted played by student support assistant Helene about updates in future articles. Lastly, Woodland has started a great Bisnaire. One by one students walked through the spiral, lit a candle, and placed it among new after-school program that happens on cedar boughs to slowly illuminate the room. Fridays—participation in the Mt. Ashland Woodland was also able to bring back an Youth Ski Program. We have been taking event from the past, the Winter Assembly. nearly 40 students to Mt. Ashland on Fridays It was held just before our winter break at to learn to ski or snowboard. We will continue Hidden Valley High School. We had an this wonderful program until March 3. Woodland is nearly at full capacity, but amazing turnout of students, families, and relatives, who enjoyed songs, dancing, poetry, we do have a few openings in Grades 1, 2, and more. Each grade performed at the 3, 6 and 8! We continue to provide an in- direction of their class teacher and gave the person, full-time charter school experience audience a lovely showcase of all the grades that is different from a traditional school through an integration of art, music, and at Woodland. In January, our Leadership Club led developmentally appropriate thematic the school in a celebration of the Reverend learning experiences in a lovely outdoor and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. They read a indoor learning environment. We are proud biography of Dr. King to younger students of the care and kindness we show in meeting and allowed older students to hear the the needs of families in Josephine and Jackson seminal “I Have a Dream” speech in its counties who are looking for something entirety. Students were then provided time different, and we appreciate the continued and materials to create their own dreams support of Three Rivers School District for and post them for all the school to see on sponsoring us. If you are interested in knowing more a display board at the Juniper Shelter. This event was developed, coordinated, and led about Woodland Charter School, or are interested in enrolling, visit our website at by our Leadership students. With a local grant from the Josephine woodlandcharterschool.org or send us an email County Cultural Coalition, we have recently at enrollment@woodlandcharterschool.org. Chris Carmiencke, Education Director purchased a classroom set of ukuleles, Woodland Charter School tuners, and cases from Larry’s Music for our chris.carmiencke@ eighth-grade Wolf Class students. The Wolf woodlandcharterschool.org Class students are in the beginning stages of Special Offer! 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