Tag: Invasive Species
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The Worst Invasive Species Control I’ve Seen
Summary Overview Herbicide Impacted Native Species Complaint The Next Year 2021 Sprayed Invasive Species Overview For an Eagle Scout project, the larger common buckthorns were removed from a good portion of the preserve that is the topic of this post. After this was done, I volunteered solo at this location for several years. I was not allowed…
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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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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…
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Where to Cut Teasel
This is an image of invasive teasels on September 10th. On July 30th, to prevent seed production the flower heads (about half open at the time) and the upper half of the plants were cut off and removed. The plants were cut above where the leaves had started dying. Despite being cut during flowering above…
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Glenview Woods and Harms Woods 3/18/2023
Areas Visited Outlined In Red Sign At Entrance Bridge Over North Branch Chicago River Looking North of Bridge Along North Branch Chicago River Sign Along Orange Gravel Trail Other Side of Above Sign North Work Area The new burn piles are labelled. Piles of logs are labelled. Previous burn piles are the dots that are…
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