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Sowing Steigerwald’s future

Volunteers help plant trees and shrubs at Washougal refuge

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Camas residents David Van Cleave (left) and his daughter Regan, a member of a local Daisy Scout Troop, are among the dozens of volunteers who descended on Steigerwald Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Washougal on Saturday to plant a few hundred of the more than 6,000 trees and shrubs that were part of an overall effort that began in January. Although temperatures were frigid, beautiful sunny skies revealed themselves.

Dozens of volunteers braved frigid temperatures Saturday to help plant hundreds of trees and shrubs at the Steigerwald Lake National Wildlife Refuge.

It may have been chilly, but the Boy Scouts, Daisy Scouts and others who attended the joint effort between the Lower Columbia River Estuary Partnership and Columbia Gorge Refuge Stewards were happy to be greeted by sunny skies, instead of showers.

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