Tag: black cherry
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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…
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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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Bluff Spring Fen 2/18/2023
The areas outlined in red are where I visited today. Today’s work area. Burn pile with today’s work area in the background. Every stump had been carefully treated with herbicide. Closer view of a treated stump. Herbicide has been applied liberally to the point some has run down the stem. It would be possible to…
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Poplar Creek On 1/8/2023
North of Shoe Factory Road The next day the brush piles have burned to ash. There are brush piles covered by tarps near the bicycle path so they will be easy to burn later. Some stumps had herbicide applied. Since the bark was covered, in addition to the cambium, and the temperature was near or…
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