Spears Woods Saturday March 1
Many volunteers attended the Wild Things nature conference in Rosemont Saturday - more on that below - but we still had a good group out at Spears to continue the assault on honeysuckle, multi-flora rose, and other delights. Carolyn led this one in Joe's absence, and this account and a couple pictures below came from Doug Bosco's FB post.
McClaughrey Springs Sunday March 2
Sunday was a clean-up day from last month's tree-thinning, with several piles of cut timber awaiting us. We also had four members of the Thorn Creek Resource Management crew helpinng, running brushcutters to eliminate the plethora of small walnut saplings that shade and stymie all the native grasses and forbs in this meadow.
With falling humidity levels projected for the afternoon we stopped loading early to give the fires a chance to burn down. This was a wise call on the part of the RM crew - maybe some readers heard about the 10 acre wildfire in McHenry County, caused by a brushpile stirred by strong winds.
Many volunteers attended the Wild Things nature conference in Rosemont Saturday - more on that below - but we still had a good group out at Spears to continue the assault on honeysuckle, multi-flora rose, and other delights. Carolyn led this one in Joe's absence, and this account and a couple pictures below came from Doug Bosco's FB post.
McClaughrey Springs Sunday March 2
Sunday was a clean-up day from last month's tree-thinning, with several piles of cut timber awaiting us. We also had four members of the Thorn Creek Resource Management crew helpinng, running brushcutters to eliminate the plethora of small walnut saplings that shade and stymie all the native grasses and forbs in this meadow.
With falling humidity levels projected for the afternoon we stopped loading early to give the fires a chance to burn down. This was a wise call on the part of the RM crew - maybe some readers heard about the 10 acre wildfire in McHenry County, caused by a brushpile stirred by strong winds.
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