BURBANK -- Several federal agencies are helping to celebrate National Public Lands Day on Saturday at the Hood Park Nature Area.

The Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Forest Service, National Park Service and Bureau of Reclamation are seeking volunteers to assist in making visitor improvements to the area, located at the intersection of highways 12 and 124.

Registration is at 9 a.m. Projects planned include building a trail from the campground to the nature area and a litter patrol.

Volunteers also will help to construct and install five sun shelters, 10 park benches and several planter boxes.

For more information about this National Public Lands Day event, call Corps of Engineers Natural Resource Specialist Joyce McDonald at 509-543-6066, or go to the Ice Harbor Lock and Dam Facebook page.

Birding society meeting Tuesday focuses on trips

KENNEWICK -- The Lower Columbia Basin Audubon Society (LCBAS) is having its regular monthly meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the First Lutheran Church in Kennewick, at the corner of Highway 395 and Yelm Street.

This month's program features Far Away Field Trippers reliving the two spring field trips, one to the San Juans and the other to the Caribbean.

For more information, go to lcbas.org.