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Acorn Project

Yesterday afternoon Serenity Lora and I went up to Laurel Creek Park in Pleasanton to participate in the Acorn Project with several other families from Tri-Valley Explorers and Pleasanton Naturalist Eric Nicholas. It was a sunny, somewhat cool, February day, the breeze was brisk up on the ridge. Serenity, Lora and I planted about 30 acorns on the hill. A wild guess would be that close to 200 acorns were planted by our group. We encountered a huge Jerusalem Cricket (aka: as we called them when I was growing up in Novato, "Potato Bug") while clearing a spot to dig a hole to plant an acorn in the foot tall green grass. I just about jumped out of my skin when I saw it! They are huge and really ugly...



We are looking forward to Arbor Day when there will be more Acorn Project work to do:

Arbor Day
All ages
Interested in planting a forest?
Join Program Naturalist, Eric Nicholas for the 1st
annual Pleasanton Arbor Day Event! You can be a factor of change
in the world we all share and cherish. Last winter, we planted some acorns with members
of the “Acorn Project” and now it’s time to see if anything is popping up. Help create a new habitat as we make future forests in our home town. We will be searching for new
trees, weeding around them and sowing the future. You will learn what makes a healthy ecosystem as you become part of the solution.
Sa 4/26 1:00-3:00pm
Bernal Creek Restoration Site

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