WVAS volunteers assist in conservation efforts

The Wabash Valley Audubon Society (WVAS) was awarded funding from TogetherGreen, a nationwide initiative to engage volunteers in conservation efforts, made possible through the assistance of the National Audubon Society and by funding from the Toyota Corporation. WVAS was one of only 40 'pioneer' chapters to receive funding in the first year of this multi-year initiative. With TG support, our volunteers helped remove invasive honeysuckle from the forest at Dobbs Park, helped restore the butterfly garden at Dobbs, rescued native wildflowers from a construction site, and installed nest boxes for swallows and bluebirds in a strip-mined area east of Terre Haute.

WVAS volunteers, Joe Dickson, Denise Prothero, Brenda and Phil Milliren, selling native wildflowers at the Earth Day Fest at St. Mary of the Woods. These plants were rescued by volunteers from a construction site near the Indianapolis airport.

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