2025 In March 2025, the Board approved a contract with Waxwing Tree Specialists, LLC, to help us develop a 1, 3, 5, 10-year plan for managing our forests. This plan includes: Level 1 risk assessment to identify hazard trees. Invasive species removal priorities. Priority planting areas with specific species and location recommendations. Forest health/disease issues... Continue Reading →
Trail Installation The WPOA applied for and received a grant from the City of Olympia to build up and reinforce the existing muddy path from Wilderness Loop to the Sweetbriar neighborhood. This path is used by Wilderness kids and families going to and from Centennial Elementary school. While the grant paid for most of the... Continue Reading →
In May 2025, through our partnership with the Thurston Conservation District and the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, we were provided, free of charge to WPOA, a crew to chip up a considerable amount of limbs and cut up the remaining wood for homeowners who wanted to collect it. This area is in the... Continue Reading →
On March 16, several of your fellow Wilderness homeowners gathered to plant native plants in the newly renovated area at the entry to the LBA Woods trail. We expect this area to be full of native flowering plants for all to enjoy in the coming years. We'll also be installing a small kiosk at the... Continue Reading →
GREENBELT LOCATIONS The WPOA greenbelt map shows, in blue, where our greenbelts are. There is one pink section that is a Thurston County parcels. We'll be working with the Assessor next year to address this, but, for the moment, it is NOT WPOA property. The pink boxy area along Boulevard is the water catchment pond, and... Continue Reading →
In 2024, we walked through all 28 acres of greenbelt to "ivy gap" trees. Cait, the Golden Retriever, was a big help with this effort!Ivy gapping is where we cut the ivy at ground level and again at about 4-5 feet up the trunk of the tree, severing the vines so the tree can live... Continue Reading →
We've been busy the past 2 years taking care of hazardous trees and we are finally almost done with that work and are now turning our attention to replacing some of those trees with native plants. This spring, we will be planting in a couple of our greenbelts where there have been trees removed. We... Continue Reading →
Our next steps will be to focus on the invasive plants that we have throughout our greenbelts. We will remove what we can and plant native species in places where we think they can out-compete the invasives. English Ivy-https://www.nwcb.wa.gov/weeds/english-ivy Himalayan Blackberry-https://www.nwcb.wa.gov/weeds/himalayan-blackberry English Holly-https://www.nwcb.wa.gov/weeds/english-holly Yellow Archangle-https://www.nwcb.wa.gov/weeds/yellow-archangel Herb Robert-https://www.nwcb.wa.gov/weeds/herb-robert Spurge Laurel-https://www.nwcb.wa.gov/weeds/spurge-laurel
This chart shows the number of hours volunteers have given by month in 2025. A total of 367 hours for 2025. Since 2023, volunteers have given over 825 hours for greenbelt/common area management and Firewise USA activities! We are lucky to have wonderful volunteers who help with Greenbelt Management in many different ways. Some volunteers... Continue Reading →
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