Volunteers Needed for Invasive Plant Removal #4 - at Carroll Howard Johnson Environmental Education Park (CHJEEP) on Wednesday, SEPTEMBER 23, 2026, 9 - 11 am Location is 301 Wagstaff Rd., Fuquay-Varina 27526 Leader: Jim Hunsberger, [email protected] Please join Wake Audubon volunteers and help with invasive plant removal at CHJEEP. This helps the birds and other wildlife. We will meet in the parking lot of CHJEEP. This is the 4th session; we plan on holding six of these sessions in 2026. Following 4 successful events in 2025, we’re hoping that 6 events this year will make an even more significant impact on invasive species abatement at this special park.

NOTE: Must be 18 years old or older, close-toed shoes required. Bring hand tools and buckets (or borrow from town supplied tools), water, bug spray, sunscreen, gloves, safety glasses, wear a hat, long pants, and long-sleeved shirt.

Town staff will be on hand with a debris trailer. They will use targeted herbicide treatments as necessary after we remove the plants (thus, we don't have to struggle to dig out the roots).

Thanks for helping to improve the flora of this lovely park! "The focus of this 28-acre park is environmental education. Carroll Howard Johnson Environmental Education Park was originally a 20-acre tract of land donated to the Town of Fuquay-Varina in 1992 by the late Mayor Alfred Johnson and his wife Carroll Howard Johnson. Eight acres were donated by Horace Tart in 1998, enlarging the park to its current 28 acres.