01/08/2026
Just in case anyone is interested in volunteering?
Martin Luther King Jr. promoted many kinds of justice and community service during his lifetime. The Martin Luther King Day of Service on January 19th gives us the opportunity to do a service for our community and its environment. Please join us for two hours to do important work for our trees.
Brandywine Park's trees are under a great threat by the invasive plant English Ivy. This invasive plant can literally strangle a tree. It can kill trees by covering their trunks and branches, blocking sunlight, adding weight, and spreading rapidly through roots and bird-dispersed seeds, disrupting forest ecosystems and increasing erosion. It forms dense mats on the ground and climbs high into canopies, forming monocultures that displace vital food and habitat for wildlife. This creates a bad situation.
But you can help.
At the Wilmington State Parks, we need volunteers to spend two hours with our team for our Martin Luther King Day of Service on January 19th, 1 p.m.-3 p.m., using provided loppers and pruners, to cut these vines on trees in our wooded area. Your assistance on this day will help us free the affected trees from these damaging vines. Please join us!
Parking for this event will be across the street from the Brandywine Zoo. Meeting place is the Josephine Fountain in the Zoo parking lot at 200 N. Park Drive in Wilmington.
Please sign up at our park website! https://destateparks.galaxydigital.com/need/detail/?need_id=1181946
Any questions or concerns, please contact our manager of volunteers, Nancy Kersey, at [email protected]