Despite our cold April, garlic mustard has caught up during our warm and wet May and is now in full flower.  The good news is that it's easier to find at this stage.  The bad news is that it's already forming seed pods and the other vegetation also has gotten denser and higher.  In short, the […]

Despite our cold April, garlic mustard has caught up during our warm and wet May and is now in full flower.  The good news is that it's easier to find at this stage.  The bad news is that it's already forming seed pods and the other vegetation also has gotten denser and higher.  In short, the […]

In May, four chain sawyers cut brush along the trail here in preparation for the trail building event in August.  They did not pile it because a volunteer group had scheduled an outing for that purpose. The group then cancelled.  Assisted by some Verona teachers, we will pick up and stack the cut brush for later burning […]

We will use power brush cutters and hand tools to clear both woody and early herbaceous invasives from the savanna and prairie.  It's possible we'll also do some follow up attack on brush resprouts in some areas we burned earlier this spring.  We'll also apply herbicide to cut woody stems. Meet at the old lot […]

Our May scans with backpack sprayers showed that we may be close to the end game of our control efforts here.  We'll scan for plants we missed, hand pull them, bag them and carry them out.  We need many people with good eyes and sturdy boots.  If anyone carries a sprayer this time, it will […]

We'll meet in the village that will host the biggest events for our chapter this summer, namely, the trail community celebration in conjunction with construction of new trail through the Glacial Valley Conservancy on the south side of town to Highway P southeast of the village.  A good part of the agenda probably will be devoted […]