Tag: Autumn Olive

• Old Plank Road Prairie Nature Preserve 1/7/2023

  

  For this post, I visited the Old Plank Road Prairie Nature Preserve. The volunteer group that is working at this preserve posts information on workdays at the following Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/OPRprairies Summary Satellite Map Herbicide Application Map Location of woody invasive species are mapped and labelled. Further explanation of the map included in this respective section.  Images…

  jamesandrewmcgee

  January 9, 2024

  Uncategorized

  Asian Bush Honeysuckle, Autumn Olive, Basal Bark, black cherry, Burn Scar, Callery Pear, Canada Wild Rye, Common Buckthorn, Cornus racemosa, Cornus sericea, Cottonwood, Eastern Red Cedar, Ecological Restoration, Elaeagnus umbellata, Elymus canadensis, Grey Dogwood, Herbicide, Illinois Nature Preserve, Invasive Species, Juniperus virginiana, Lonicera, nature, Old Plank Road Prairie, Old Plank Road Prairie Nature Preserve, Populus deltoides, Pyrus calleryana, Redosier Dogwood, Rhamnus cathcartica, Siberian Elm, triclopyr ester, triclopyr ester in basal oil, Ulmus pumila

• When A Tree Dies

  

  This is where a tree died and was removed. In this closer view, you can readily see the multiflora rose growing around the cut stump. Around this dead tree is thick common buckthorn and some autumn olive. As the old oaks die, many are being replaced by invasive species.

  jamesandrewmcgee

  January 30, 2023

  ecology

  Autumn Olive, Common Buckthorn, Elaeaganthus umbellata, Poplar Creek Prairie Stewards, Rhamnus cathcartica