Projects in the Park
Forever ConverTable Benches
Forever Convertable benches have been installed in the Park by Friends of Acker Park. They mainly were purchased by Friends of Acker Park with some generous gifts from Unity Church on Arizona Ave.
These benches have had the original breakable slats replaced by very durable TREX material. These Benches can be used in two formats... A bench and a table. A simple lever converts from one to the other. Users can have a picknic, grade papers, paint, restore tired walking muscles or watch a sunset over the City of Prescott.
Firewise Deladdering Project
Acker Park is slowly being "Deladdered" in critical areas. The first step is to make areas where a fire would be greatly slowed down and stopped. The first section finished was the Virginia Ave entrance up to the Odd Fellow's Cemetery. This process removes shrubs under trees and removing the lowest limbs of the tree. This keeps grass fires from lighting bushes under the tree and engulfing the tree as well. Instrumental in this project was Cody Benett and his handy chainsaw! Also a number of volunteer groups have made this first step possible. It will give foresters time to stop the flames... hopefully.
QR Code Woody Plant Identification
You will find QR codes on various typical plants within the park. Using your cell phone, which has a good signial in the park. simply point your camera at the code. A link will appear which informs the user about the name and characteristics of the plant.
There is a link within each to "I Naturalist" which goes into great detail about each plant.
"Demudifying"
Beta Project
As many of you have realized after rain, or snow many of the trails in the pork have serious sticky mud to contend with. This makes shoes weigh more and doggy feet a real mess. To counteract this one trail is almost completly covered with crushed rock. This was a first effort, and we placed too little in places and too much in others. What we have found is that silt still invaids from the upper slope and that the single layers of stone have been "squished", into the mud below. So we are still learning regarding this problem.
