McMahon Woods Saturday July 12
We had a small group at McMahon which included Emily Russell from Forest Preserve's Volunteer Resources, who took a backpack sprayer and helped Joe herbicide while the rest of us pulled melilotus (sweet clover). This morning was not oppressively hot making the work tolerable, though we still had to clip many of the larger stems - too well-anchored to uproot.
The prairie is actively blooming now, with coneflowers (ratibida and echinacea), monarda, starry campion and numerous others. It looks beautiful, and appreciation of all the native blooms is amnple motivation to continue the assault on invaders like the sweet clovers. This season I've worked on sweet clover at four different sites, though I'd put McMahon with the largest population.
We had a small group at McMahon which included Emily Russell from Forest Preserve's Volunteer Resources, who took a backpack sprayer and helped Joe herbicide while the rest of us pulled melilotus (sweet clover). This morning was not oppressively hot making the work tolerable, though we still had to clip many of the larger stems - too well-anchored to uproot.
The prairie is actively blooming now, with coneflowers (ratibida and echinacea), monarda, starry campion and numerous others. It looks beautiful, and appreciation of all the native blooms is amnple motivation to continue the assault on invaders like the sweet clovers. This season I've worked on sweet clover at four different sites, though I'd put McMahon with the largest population.
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