| Project Name | Dalton Highway Invasives Project |
| Project Number | 261 |
| Location | Haul Road between the Kanuti River and Coldfoot |
| Dates | June 24-28 and July 22-26, 2013 |
| Duration | one week each month |
| Number of Volunteers Needed | 4 FILLED |
| Description | Volunteers and refuge/BLM staff hand pull seedlings and infestations of White Sweet Clover and Bird Vetch along the Haul Road cartier replica watches (Dalton Highway)north of the Kanuti River. 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. Travel to Fairbanks will be by carpooling or flying from Anchorage. Travel, food costs, and night in Fairbanks before and after trip is provided, as well as all equipment needed for the project. |
| Skills Needed | Skills Needed: Ability to be outdoors from 8-5, doing manual labor, in cold or wet or dusty and hot, buggy conditions. |
| Education Topics | Invasive Plants on the Haul Road and Alaska National Wildlife Refuges. |
| 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 | Talking to others traveling the road system (truck drivers and tourists)about Friends and the refuges and the work being done to combat invasive plants. Give a program at the Arctic Interagency Visitor Center about the refuges and invasives. |
| Contact | Betty Siegel betty.siegel@alaska.net |