| Project Name | Dalton Highway Invasives Project |
| Project Number | 221 |
| Location | Along the Haul Road near Coldfoot |
| Dates | TENTATIVE June 20-25 and July 18-23 |
| Duration | 1 week each month |
| Number of Volunteers Needed | 2 males, 2 females FILLED |
| Description | Volunteers and refuge/BLM staff hand pull seedlings and infestations of White Sweet Clover along the Haul Road (Dalton Highway). Weed whackers are used in some areas. We generally work 4 or 5 days, and travel to and from Fairbanks takes 1 day each way in Government vehicles. Food and lodging provided by the Refuge while we are on location.
Travel to Fairbanks will be by carpooling in a government van from Anchorage. There will be no airline travel authorized by the refuge this year. We will have 2 rooms at the BLM Fire Service Barracks in Fairbanks at each end of the weed pull, so 2 males and 2 females works best.
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| Skills Needed | Ability to be outdoors from 8-5, doing manual labor, in cold or wet or dusty and hot, buggy conditions. |
| Audience Age | All ages |
| Materials Needed | Refuges and BLM provide tools, gloves, equipment, and bug spray. Bring work clothes, head nets or bug jackets, layers of clothing to be prepared for temps 30-80, snow or rain, dust, mosquitos. |
| Other Outreach Opportunities | Present a program about Friends and the Invasive Project in Coldfoot at the Arctic Interagency Visitor Center. |
| Contact | Betty Siegel betty.siegel@alaska.net |