Tag: Populus deltoides

• 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…

  jamesandrewmcgee

  January 9, 2024

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  Asian Bush Honeysuckle, Autumn Olive, Basal Bark, black cherry, Burn Scar, Callery Pear, Canada Wild Rye, Common Buckthorn, Cornus racemosa, Cornus sericea, Cottonwood, Eastern Red Cedar, Ecological Restoration, Elaeagnus umbellata, Elymus canadensis, Grey Dogwood, Herbicide, Illinois Nature Preserve, Invasive Species, Juniperus virginiana, Lonicera, nature, Old Plank Road Prairie, Old Plank Road Prairie Nature Preserve, Populus deltoides, Pyrus calleryana, Redosier Dogwood, Rhamnus cathcartica, Siberian Elm, triclopyr ester, triclopyr ester in basal oil, Ulmus pumila

• Spring Creek, the 160, 8/16/2023 and 8/17/2023

  

  In this post, I visited the 160. The 160 is a prairie reconstruction that can be accessed by hiking east from the Beverly Lake parking lot. The Beverly Lake parking lot is known for illicit activity. Therefore, I suggest visiting in a group. A map of the area can be viewed on the previous post…

  jamesandrewmcgee

  September 27, 2023

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  Agalinis tenuifolia, Apocynum cannabinum, Asclepias syriaca, Bottle Gentian, Burn Scar, Cardinal Flower, Carex buxbaumii, Chelone glabra, Cirsium arvense, Common Reed, Coronilla varia, cottonwoods, Cream Gentian, Crown Vetch, dark-scaled sedge, Daucus carota, Dipsacus laciniatus, Ecological Restoration, Eryngium yuccafolium, Euthamia, Gentiana alba, Gentiana andrewsii, Gentianella quinquefolida, golden Alexanders, grass-leaved goldenrod, Great Blue Lobelia, Helen’s Flower, Helenium autumnale, Herbicide, ladies’-tress orchid, Lobelia cardinalis, Lobelia siphilitica, mushroom, New England Aster, Pedicularis lanceolata, Phalaris arundinacea, Phragmites australis, Populus deltoides, Prairie Dock, prairie dropseed, Riddell’s Goldenrod, Salix interior, sandbar willow, Silphium terebinthinaceum, slender leaved false foxglove, Solidago altissima, Solidago riddellii, Sorghastrum nutans, Spiranthes incurva, Sporobolus heterolepis, Stiff Gentian, Swamp Aster, swamp lousewort, Symphyotrichum puniceum, Symphytotrichum novae-angliae, Teasel, turtlehead, Zizia aurea

• Poplar Creek On 1/7/2023

  

  North of Shoe Factory Road This first image shows part of the work area where a brush pile is being burned. These are box elder trees that have been cut. Along the Bike Path North of the Carl R. Hanson Woods Parking Lot. This is a common buckthorn that was previously cut. If herbicide was…

  jamesandrewmcgee

  January 7, 2023

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  Acer negundo, box elder, Common Buckthorn, Cottonwood, multiflora rose, pin oak, Poplar Creek Prairie, Poplar Creek Prairie Stewards, Populus deltoides, Quercus palustris, Rhamnus cathcartica, Rosa multiflora