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Week Five- Outdoor Classroom Construction Timeline 2023

March 2, 2023 by Todd Elsworth

Diving in to the week of January 30th, 2023. Rock ON!! Bringing in more materials. Wood, rock and mulch to fill in the adventure trail. 

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Go with the flow

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Getting ready to put a lid on the small wall and level out with limestone. 

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Limestoned

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Mulch walls frame the creek bed. 

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Looking upstream

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Mellick starts the cuts to put the caps on the wall in place. 

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Looking GOOD- wall cap in place. Nice and smooth…

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Another angle of the walls. 

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Watching the space transform

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Up close inspection of Mellick’s work. A+ IMHO. 

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What? More mulch!! 

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All cleaned up for the week. 

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On to Week Six…

Todd Elsworth

Todd Elsworth is one of the many “Mossy-haired lunatics roaming the dripping peninsulas”, described in “I’m Here for the Weather” by Tom Robbins. As executive director, he works to fulfill our mission to teach the health benefits of nature, promote outdoor recreation, and steward the places where we play.

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Filed Under: Outdoor Classroom, Recreation Northwest Tagged With: Adventure Rock Trail, Bellingham, Chris Mellick, Dose of nature, Environmental Education, Fairhaven Park, Hundred Acre Wood, Outdoor Classroom, Outside Learning, Parkscriptions, Stewardship, Volunteers

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