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The Greenway is Greening up beautifully!
Spring 2008
All the trails are currently open - and ready to be explored by trail users. We have a busy season ahead of us with volunteer projects and fundraising. Please join us as we improve your "Wilderness in the City!"
MANRRS Volunteers Restore Native Habitat Along the Sand Creek Regional Greenway
March 27, 2008
Commerce City –Over 100 volunteers from the Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Related Sciences (MANRRS) spent Saturday, March 29, restoring native habitat along the Sand Creek Regional Greenway.
The volunteer work, which took place in Commerce City near the Greenway's Dahlia Trailhead at 56th Avenue and Sand Creek Drive, was carried out with help from a grant from the Xcel Energy Foundation, one of a series of Xcel grants in support of the Sand Creek Regional Greenway Partnership for ecological restoration.
In their work, volunteers continued a project begun in January to remove Russian olive trees, an invasive species in the Greenway. Trees were cut up and chipped, and replaced by native coyote willows. Nearly two acres along Sand Creek was cleared and revegetated and 200 coyote willows were planted.
The MANRRS volunteers were attending the 23rd Annual Career Fair and Training Conference, March 27-29, at the Denver Marriott Tech Center in Denver, CO. MANRRS promotes academic and professional advancement by empowering minorities in agriculture, natural resources, and related sciences; the group has a web site at www.manrrs.org.
The Sand Creek Regional Greenway Partnership (SCRGP) and the Commerce City Park and Recreation staff are joining together to sponsor this event. Special thanks goes to Xcel Energy Foundation, MANRRS, and the volunteer team leaders.
Please
come and enjoy our newest trail segment!
Check
out our updated map here!
Trail
Detours:
Use
the on street bike path along Havana. South-bound from Florence
Way to 29th Dr. North-bound
stay on Havana. Use extra caution and be very alert if you
ride your bicycle or walk through this area. There
is major road building on Havana St. and Martin Luther King
Blvd.
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General
Information:
Sand
Creek Regional Greenway is another jewel in the necklace of
trails that has made the metropolitan Denver area a national
model for developing a linked regional trail system. This
almost 14-mile public greenway connects the High Line Canal
in Aurora, Colorado with the Platte River Greenway in Commerce
City. Along the way, it passes through Denver and the former
Stapleton International Airport site. We invite you to become
acquainted with a part of our region that is fragile and perishable.Please note: There are a number of creeks in
Colorado named "Sand Creek." This Sand Creek is
not the location of the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre. For more
information on that Sand Creek, please visit www.sandcreek.org.
Morrison
Nature Center
The Morrison Nature Center is open at Star K Ranch. Learn
about the historic Stark homestead and about the wildlife
and their wetland habitat. Hours
and Directions
Thank
you for your support!
It's only with the dedication of our volunteers,
and the support from our community,
that Sand Creek Regional Greenway is possible.
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