Tag: Poplar Creek
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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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Poplar Creek Comparison Photos: Winter to Summer
West Woods Views North East South West Burn Scar with Black Tarp North East South West Burn Scar and Blue Tarp North East South West Cut Material Removed Treated Woody Invasive Species (7/2/2023) Asian bush honeysuckle Multiflora Rose Common buckthorn sprouting having missed being sprayed with herbicide. Josef Goder Tract Looking North Into Open Area…
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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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Things Growing On Logs
Carl R. Hansen Woods, Poplar Creek Forest Preserve Solidago ulmifolia and Geum canadensis Geum canadensis Unknown Grass Carex blanda growing on root flare Closeup of above Carex and Asteraceae growing in crack in log More Carex Various things growing between log and bark Grasses and two species of sedges Carex in cracks in log A…
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Poplar Creek 2/15/2023
The area outlined in red is where I visited today. I believe work occurred in this area on January 29th, 2023. West of the horse trail. Stump with dye from herbicide that has faded. I believe this stump had been treated two weeks ago. I did not map stumps that were treated, or not treated,…
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Poplar Creek On 1/21/2023
Schaumburg Road Grasslands Joseph Goder Tract Here is a map showing locations of brush piles that were burned at today’s workday, burn scars from previous workdays, and brush piles covered with a tarp (gray or blue). The below view looks north toward the open area. This view looks south from the open area. This is…
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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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