The Hillside Woods Restoration Project is guided by the Hillside Woods & Park Tree Inventory & Urban Forest Management Plan and aims to restore a healthy habitat in Hillside Woods. Volunteers are invited to to help remove invasive plants, shrubs and vines and replant with approved varieties.
Please do not remove or plant anything in Hillside Woods
without consulting the project coordinators.
Follow Protect Our Woods' Facebook page
Sign-up form to attend a session on a current project by emailing the Hillside Woods Steering Committee. We can create tailored internships for students and we offer community service hours. Email us for more info.
Review Hillside Woods' Volunteer slide deck from our 2020 zoom for invasive tree marking and survey project
Download EpiCollect5 from the App Store or Google Play for plant survey, removals or planting work. Here is our Step-by-step instruction deck on how to survey invasive trees with EpiCollect5
Tips for volunteers:
do not venture into the woods if you hear thunder or if it is windy
Email us if you have any questions or suggestions. No question too small!
Measured and collected data on over 1600 invasive trees
Surveyed and collected data on over 850 Japanese barberry shrubs and removed half of these (as of 8/15/22)
Conducted over 30 privet and honeysuckle removal sessions, working from the Meadow down to Vernal Pond
Installed a kiosk at the Chemka Pool entrance with Protect Our Woods and three mini kiosks at other entrances through a Bloomberg Youth Climate Action Fund grant.
Renovated the Hillside Woods trail map with Adam Hart
Reblazed the trails and repaired a trail water bar
Logged over 1500 hours of volunteer time
Built this woods-dedicated website
We've never done this before. As we encounter rocks in the path, we'll work together to smooth the way. Please email us with any difficulty navigating the system we've devised, problems on the trail, questions about particular trees, or anything at all.