Thurston
Nature Center Committee Meetings
Meeting Minutes
Thurston Nature Center
Committee meetings are held periodically, most often in the library of
Thurston
Elementary School.
Meetings are open to the public, and
interested parents, students, teachers, and neighbors are very welcome.
At these meetings, committee members discuss and develop plans
and ideas for environmental education activities and debate more
complex issues such as long-range plans to preserve or enhance the
overall environmental health of the Nature Center so that its value as
a regional resource for environmental education will not be diminished
in the years ahead. For more information, contact TNCC
Chairperson Colin Brooks at
colinmargie@sbcglobal.net.
To read the minutes of each of the TNC Committee meetings held for
which we transcribed minutes into a digital format, click on the
appropriate date below:
- March
20, 1968 report to the Orchard Hills Homeowners Association
on the Thurston Nature Center (really!!)
- September 15th,
2003
- October 20th,
2003
- November 17th,
2003
- December 15th,
2003
- January 26th,
2004
- February 16th, 2004
- March 15th, 2004
- April 19th, 2004
- May 17th, 2004
- September 20th, 2004
- October 18th, 2004
- (November,
2004 - December, 2007 minutes exist on paper & are available
from Neal Foster, TNCC Chairperson)
- February 19, 2008
- March 18, 2008
- April 20, 2008
- June 17, 2008
- September 15, 2008
- October 14, 2008
- March 20, 2009 -
meeting of Oak Savanna Work Group & Thurston Pond Work Group
- April 22, 2009
(revised)
- May 20, 2009
- September 22, 2009
- November 24, 2009
- March 25, 2010
- June 3, 2010 work
group
- July
23, 2010 EPA GLRI proposal debriefing meeting minutes
- October 27, 2010
(MDNRE permit discussion)
- January 17, 2011
- April 7, 2011
- May 12, 2011
Spring and Fall Work Days
Special Work Days are
scheduled during certain weekends each Fall and Spring. Signs
announcing the dates of these work days are placed at strategic points
throughout the neighborhood several days ahead of time to alert
potential volunteers. On the work days, students, parents, and
neighbors work together to do such things as help move gravel to the
berm, lay down fresh wood chips on the trails, trim brush growing too
close to the trails, and cut back invasive exotic shrubs such as
buckthorn and Japanese honeysuckle. Such invasives can overwhelm or
outcompete the growth of desirable plant species and diminish the
overall diversity of trees, shrubs, and wildflowers, as well as the
animal habitats these provide, throughout the Center. The members of
the Thurston Nature Center Committee are deeply grateful to all those
who help or who have helped, over four decades, in sharing the
stewardship of our Center.
More
Work Days are planned for Spring 2012 - when the city has wood chips available for us again!
Photos are from the Spring 2008 workday on April 20th, 2008
when members of Cub Scout Pack 160 helped out!
Here's a few 2009 Spring workday photos from April 5-6th, 2009:
Spring 2010 workday photos, April 10-11, 2010:
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Center Committee Meetings: last revised October 23rd, 2011