Tag: Healy Savanna

• Spring Creek, Healy Savanna, 8/16/2023 and 8/17/2023

  

  In this post, I visit Healy Savanna. Healy Savanna has prairie areas on top of the ridge, savanna areas into the oak trees, and on the steep eastern facing slope woodland species. Healy Savanna can be accessed by hiking north from the Beverly Lake parking lot. The Beverly Lake parking lot is known for illicit…

  jamesandrewmcgee

  October 4, 2023

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  Asian Bush Honeysuckle, Brush Mowing, Brush Piles, Burn Scar, Chokecherry, Common Buckthorn, Common Mullein, Ecological Restoration, Healy Savanna, Herbicide, Invasive Species, Native Casualty, Phytolacca americana, Pokeweed, Prairie, Rhamnus cathcartica, savanna, Spring Creek Forest Preserve, Spring Lake Forest Preserve, The Corridor, Verbascum thapsus

• Spring Creek On 1/14/2023

  

  South of Healy Savanna The below image is of the work area from the workday on 1/14/2023. This is on the ridge south of Healy Savanna. In this work area both Asian bush honeysuckle and common buckthorn were treated with herbicide. Rain occurred two days after the herbicide was applied. This will be important when…

  jamesandrewmcgee

  January 14, 2023

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  Asian Bush Honeysuckle, Beverly Lake, Burn Scar, Common Buckthorn, Ecological Restoration, Healy Savanna, Herbicide, Lonicera maackii, Lonicera tatarica, Rhamnus cathcartica, Spring Creek Forest Preserve, Spring Creek Stewards, Spring Lake Forest Preserve, The 160, The Corridor