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Volunteers turn out for wetland restoration project

bySarah Brown
February 10, 2026
Sweet Home High School forestry students and teacher Zech Brown, left, plant native trees and shrubs along the bank of Ames Creek last week. Photo by Scott Swanson

In the east shoulder of Sankey Park, a place where few tread and invasive plants thrive, a number of volunteers gathered together to stick twigs in the ground.

Tyrell Styhl gives the restoration project area one last look after a team of people spent two days planting nearly 2,000 cuttings of native plants on the south shoulder of Sankey Park. Photos by Sarah Brown

It was Thursday and Friday morning, Feb. 5-6, when members of…