Cap Sauers Holding Saturday July 19
The threat of storms accompanied our volunteers into Cap Sauers Saturday morning, and eventually prompted them to shut down early. In the meantime, Margaret split her volunteers into two small groups, each pulling white sweet clover and stacking it along the trail.
After a light rain bega, with radar showing a storm approaching, they scrambled to pack bags (and people) into Margaret's car for the escape. Margaret and Doug returned to deal with the remaining melilotus, bagging and loading it onto a compost pile.
Reliable weather radar; such a valuable tool, guiding our decisions about when we should and should not be out in the preserves. Well done, volunteers!
Black Partridge Woods Sunday July 20
John and I were the whole story on Sunday, when plants were still soaked from the previous day's rain and more sprinkles occurred throughout the day. No conditions for herbicide so we focused on beheading teasel flowers, found in abundance in a former pasture on the south side of Bluff Road.
In under two hours we collected a big bag of teasel heads. We also saw a decent assortment of native plants, including a few specimens of white monarda, pictured below. We stopped about an hour early, leaving me time to visit Cherry Hill prairie on the way home.
The threat of storms accompanied our volunteers into Cap Sauers Saturday morning, and eventually prompted them to shut down early. In the meantime, Margaret split her volunteers into two small groups, each pulling white sweet clover and stacking it along the trail.
After a light rain bega, with radar showing a storm approaching, they scrambled to pack bags (and people) into Margaret's car for the escape. Margaret and Doug returned to deal with the remaining melilotus, bagging and loading it onto a compost pile.
Reliable weather radar; such a valuable tool, guiding our decisions about when we should and should not be out in the preserves. Well done, volunteers!
Black Partridge Woods Sunday July 20
John and I were the whole story on Sunday, when plants were still soaked from the previous day's rain and more sprinkles occurred throughout the day. No conditions for herbicide so we focused on beheading teasel flowers, found in abundance in a former pasture on the south side of Bluff Road.
In under two hours we collected a big bag of teasel heads. We also saw a decent assortment of native plants, including a few specimens of white monarda, pictured below. We stopped about an hour early, leaving me time to visit Cherry Hill prairie on the way home.
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