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| The Urban Bird Corridor is located between Brittany Woods Middle School and the Ruth Park Golf Course.
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The purpose of The Green Center's Urban Bird Corridor Restoration Project is to restore approximately 1500 linear feet of tree and shrub hedgerow. The corridor links The Green Center's a half-acre prairie, 4000 square foot wetland, and 26-acre Ruth Park Woods. |
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The restoration project will provide a safe habitat for migrating and nesting urban birds as well as a regional educational resource about the functional value of urban wildlife corridors. In the past five years, about 100 bird species have been observed in the nearby Ruth Park Woods. By restoring this corridor, The Green Center will provide much needed native habitat for resident wildlife, as well as a flyway for migratory birds. |
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In January 2008, a group of volunteers from the Missouri Master Naturalist Program and REI members helped install a primative trail through the Corridor. Now visitors have the ability to walk through, rather than along, the UBC. We plan to utilize this new trail for education and hope to add interpretive information soon. |
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The Green Center has been focusing efforts on preparing the UBC for planting of native trees and shrubs. As part of this restoration effort over the last two years, Green Center volunteers have completed important activities such as:
- Removal of non-native invasive bush and vining honeysuckle, euonymus, and Japanese hops
- Trash pickup
- Propagating and planting native plants
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| Currently, the UBC is slated for a large-scale replanting of native trees and shrubs in April of 2008 as part of our annual Free the Forest event. If you would like to be involved in the UBC restoration project on any level, please contact Carissa at 314-725-8314 x 101 or email events@thegreencenter.org. |
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