Using backpack sprayers, we will herbicide garlic mustard (plus dames rocket, burdock and Japanese hedge parsley). This workday is shown as happening in Verona on our print calendar published four months ago.  We changed the worksite based on greatest need.  

Now is the time to see and hear migrating and newly returned birds and see and smell the spring ephemeral woods wildflowers.  Bring binoculars, field guides and bird call apps if you have them!  Your guide is intimately familiar with the area.

Using backpack sprayers, we will herbicide garlic mustard (plus dames rocket, burdock and Japanese hedge parsley).  Contact leader if you are interested in nonchemical control.  (Note the time change from that listed on the printed calendar distributed with the latest issue of the Ice Age Drift).

We may be herbiciding with backpack sprayers, hand pulling and bagging or both.  Contact leader for details. Meet at the Frenchtown Rd Trailhead (intersection of Frenchtown Rd and Piller Rd.)    

An agenda will be available a few days in advance.  Contact Tess for an email copy or inclusion on the list of recipients.

Using backpack sprayers, we will herbicide garlic mustard (plus dames rocket, burdock and Japanese hedge parsley).  Contact leader if you are interested in nonchemical control.  We've done most of the area east of the swale, so we'll be working mostly on the west side of it, along and above the white loop trail.

Using backpack sprayers, we will herbicide garlic mustard (plus dames rocket, burdock and Japanese hedge parsley).  Contact leader if you are interested in nonchemical control.  Meet at the Robertson kiosk lot (Map/directions).

Using backpack sprayers, we will herbicide garlic mustard (plus dames rocket, burdock and Japanese hedge parsley).  Contact leader if you are interested in nonchemical control.  Meet at the Twin Pines lot on the east side of Lodi Springfield Rd (map/directions).  Note this is a change from the meeting site listed on the printed calendar.

We will pull, bag and remove garlic mustard along the trail.  Meet at Hwy D trail crossing south of Bellbrook Rd and north of junction with Hwy DD (Map/directions).  Park off payment on Hwy D shoulder.

The National Park Service's Great Lakes Exotics Management Team makes one or two visits a season to clear invasive brush on the federal part (south of Old Sauk Pass).  We will help them today.  There will be hand tool work.  Also, you could use a power brush cutter (your own, or one of the chapter's with proper PPE […]