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Death to a Native Plant Garden Revisited 7/13/2023
Above is what the garden looked like from the side on 5/3/2023. This is what the garden looks like today. Some plants that have survived the spraying include butterfly milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa), little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium), pale purple coneflower (Echinacea pallida), prairie coreopsis (Coreopsis palmata), prairie dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepsis), royal catchfly (Silene regia), wild bergamot…
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Bluff Spring Fen Preliminary Results
Learn about Bluff Spring Fen at the below link. https://dnr.illinois.gov/inpc/area.area2cookbluffspringfen.html Summary A wide view and closer view of the work area are presented. Images of damaged vegetation are shown. Discussion on if this was caused by herbicide or drought is presented. A chart recording number of buckthorns killed or sprouting in different size classes after…
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Deer Grove Preliminary Results
Today I revisited the area north of Camp Alphonse which I had wrote about on the post titled, “Deer Grove On 2/11/2023.” Triclopyr ester (Garlon 4) in basal oil had been applied to the cut surfaces of stumps with a mini-paint roller. Walking to the 2/11/2023 Work Area As I walked from the parking lot…
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Poplar Creek, Near Shoe Factory Road Prairie Nature Preserve Preliminary Results
North of Shoe Factory Road I took a picture of this stump after it had been treated with herbicide. You can see this picture on the post labelled “Poplar Creek on 1/8/2023.” Now there are sprouts forming around the stump. The herbicide application did not kill it. This box elder tree likely had been cut…
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Buckthorn Seedlings in Low Nitrogen Soil (a Decomposing Log)
After control work occurred on common buckthorns, lots of buckthorn seedlings were growing on this decomposing log. The common buckthorn seedlings were able to grow because of the increased sunlight. Common buckthorn is known to alter soil making it higher in nitrogen favoring further invasion. I wanted to see if common buckthorn could establish on…
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Off Target Damage From Applying Glyphosate to Frills (Cuts Around Stems)
The above image shows common buckthorns that have sustained foliage impacts from herbicide transferred through root connections from a nearby buckthorn that had about 25 percent active ingredient glyphosate (+/- 2 percent) applied twice to a frill (cuts around a stem). I do not care if common buckthorns sustains off-target impacts from herbicide applications. At…
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Prairie Plants That Survive in Harsh Suburban Environments
The images in this post were taken at Henry Terada Park in Schaumburg. Dry Mesic Area The two most common plants are wild bergamot and spiderwort. The bergamot shows impacts from herbicide vapor drift. In this case, probably 2-D and dicamba used to control lawn weeds in nearby areas. However, I was still able to…
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Death to a Native Plant Garden 5/6/2023
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein This is the garden at a nature sanctuary on June 28th, 2018. Another view of the garden on June 28th, 2018. This is the garden on April 28th, the year before the above pictures were taken.…
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Poplar Creek On 4/30/2023
Sign Along Shoe Factory Hill Road East Side of Shoe Factory Road Nature Preserve – Lots of tree thinning has occurred here over the years. I was worried that the tree thinning that had been done on the east side of the Shoe Factory Road Nature Preserve was too much for many of the woodland…
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Middlefork Savanna 4/22/2023
Points of Interest Are Numbered and Target Area is Outlined in Red Point of Interest One: Kiosk at Entrance Point of Interest Two: Blanding’s Turtle Sign The Fire Did a Good Job of Top-Killing Shrubs Point of Interest Three: Diversity of Habitats Sign Point of Interest Four: A Wetland is More Than Water Sign Young…
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