Spears Woods Saturday October 26
Wasn't able to attend this one, by I'm told we had an impressive volunteer turnout and got another big chunk of brush cleared at Joe's current Spears work site. It's near a wetland, not far from Boomerang Slough, in an area that once held a number of large cottonwoods which had intruded on the wetland.
With more sunlight, it now grows thick with forbs and grasses, as well as - unfortunately -an abundance of honeysuckle and multi-flora rose. Hats off to the hardy volunteers tackling that latter, contentious nuisance!
Swallow Cliff Woods South, Sunday October 27
Sunday was our first brush-cutting day of the season at Swallow Cliff and it was a good one. With the recent dry spell, areas that usually are muddy were instead dry allowing us to enter and clear the brush, mostly buckthorn and honeysuckle, that were growing within.
With Joe C. on the chainsaw and Jim D. brush-cutting, we made a large dent in it, breaking through to open up a clear view of a smaller pond we first "discovered perhaps a year ago. (See pictures in slideshow below). It was also a lovely fall colors day and the parking lot was nearly full by noon, with scores of walkers taking it all in.
Wasn't able to attend this one, by I'm told we had an impressive volunteer turnout and got another big chunk of brush cleared at Joe's current Spears work site. It's near a wetland, not far from Boomerang Slough, in an area that once held a number of large cottonwoods which had intruded on the wetland.
With more sunlight, it now grows thick with forbs and grasses, as well as - unfortunately -an abundance of honeysuckle and multi-flora rose. Hats off to the hardy volunteers tackling that latter, contentious nuisance!
Swallow Cliff Woods South, Sunday October 27
Sunday was our first brush-cutting day of the season at Swallow Cliff and it was a good one. With the recent dry spell, areas that usually are muddy were instead dry allowing us to enter and clear the brush, mostly buckthorn and honeysuckle, that were growing within.
With Joe C. on the chainsaw and Jim D. brush-cutting, we made a large dent in it, breaking through to open up a clear view of a smaller pond we first "discovered perhaps a year ago. (See pictures in slideshow below). It was also a lovely fall colors day and the parking lot was nearly full by noon, with scores of walkers taking it all in.
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