Tag: Ecological Restoration
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Draft Purple Loosestrife: Glyphosate Applied to Cut Stems
Contents Introduction 2024 Application 1. A large purple loosestrife plant sprouting after herbicide application 2. A second large purple loosestrife plant sprouting after herbicide application 3-9. Medium size purple loosestrife plants, not sprouting after herbicide application 2025 Application 10. View of part of the application area 11-20. Purple loosestrife plants sprouting after herbicide application 21.…
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Big Jump and Orland Tract at The Nature Conservancy’s Nachusa Grasslands – A Comparison Post Five Years Following Woody Invasive Species Control
Contents Introduction Big Jump Map Images From Big Jump 1. Burn scar near work area 2. A closer view of the burn scar Discussion 3a. Controlled invasive bush honeysuckle with a wall of multiflora rose in the background 3b. Area above after forestry mowing 4a. Thicket of multiflora rose 4b. Above area after forestry mowing…
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Soil Crust
Draft: I plan to add more images later Bluff Spring Fen Map of Areas Visited 1. Moss growing on small ridge 2. Wider view showing small ridge. The slight increase in elevation helps keep leaves blowing in the wind from depositing. 3. Moss growing on infrequently used trail. People walking keep the trail relatively free…
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Morton Grove Prairie Nature Preserve 2/14/2026
Contents Introduction Map Images from site 1. Sign at entrance 2. Invasive woody species removal 3. Closer view of invasive woody species removal area 4. Overlook 5. View north of overlook 6. View looking west from north side of overlook 7. View looking south from north side of overlook 8. Blue joint grass looking west…
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Busse Woods 1/10/2026 Failure of a Restoration Group
Contents Map Introduction Workday Location 1. Area cleared of common buckthorn ten years ago Sumac Expansion 2. Expanding patch of staghorn sumac 3. Closer view 4. An even closer view 5. Sumac stems scorched by fire Soil 6. Soil profile Hickories Top Killed 7. Hickories that regrew after fire Sedge 8. Carex albursina Map Introduction…
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Winter Fire 12/21/2025
Contents Downspout Garden Tree Underplanting Woody Species Control Weather Conditions Future After a previous post, “Fire’s Impact on Moss in a Prairie Planting,” I wanted to see if I could burn in a manner that would reduce impacts. I had previously burned at below freezing temperatures. The brown-dead tips of Carex sprengelii burned off, leaving…
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Poplar Creek, Schaumburg Road Grasslands, 11/22/2025
Contents Map Images From Site Views 1. Prairie Grass Just After Sunset 2. Sunset Through Oak Trees 3. Late Fall Color of Birch (Yellow) and Raspberries (Red) with Lotus Seed Pods (Achenes) in Foreground Burn Scar 4. Looking north of the southernmost burn scar on 2/15/2023. 5. Looking north of the southernmost burn scar on…
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Hosah Glossy Buckthorn Control 10/11/2025
Contents Maps Discussion Future Goals Images from Workday Piles of Cut Stems Herbicide Applications Views of Treatment Areas From Different Directions Views of Smaller Work Area Fauna Precipitation Maps Closer view of work area in above map. Discussion This post was written to record the work completed at the 10/11 workday at Hosah Park. Glossy…
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Poplar Creek Gray Dogwood Mowing 10/7/2024 and 8/12/2025
I visited Shoe Factory Road Prairie Nature Preserve last year. I took photographs of areas where gray dogwood, Cornus racemosa, had been mowed. I wanted to see how much impact the mowing had on these gray dogwoods the next year. These views are from along the trail that goes from the Carl R. Hansen Woods…
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Deer Grove East Workday 7/12/2025
During this workday, seedhead were removed from invasive reed canary grass, Phalaris arundinacea. I saw bird’s-foot trefoil, Lotus corniculata, in the prairie reconstruction. I asked, and the steward was happy to let me remove it. I used my dandelion weeder to cut small plugs of soil around the taproot of the bird’s-foot trefoil so it…
Stewardship Chronicles 