Spears Woods Saturday March 2
We had a decent number of volunteers out, including several coming early, to burn log piles on two sides of a small pond not far from Old Country Lane at Spears. The fires were a delight to start and burned with no trouble at all.
We're nearing the end of tree-thinning season now, with at least a couple more sessions of cleanup from the good work done by sawyers of Atrium Landscape. Then we shall continue brush-cutting, probably through the end of April, before moving on to garlic mustard and summer weeds.
Our restoration Sunday at McClaughrey Springs was canceled due to beyond-brisk winds.
Bizarre Weather Pattern Volume, again
In the space of seven days recently, we had four with no brush pile burning allowed, due to high winds with a couple days of low humidity and one bona-fide Red Flag warning. No wailing or wringing of hands here; we'll get whatever needs to be done on another day, and when your activity is outdoors you expect weather interruptions.
The greater concern is weather patterns that continue in this vein and their impact on local habitat. In last week's Play Dates we shared a link about the effect of warm winter days in hastening the emergence of insects and amphibians, and the domino effect on other species farther up the food chain. Over the longer term we can expect changes in flora, some of which we're seeing already with migration of trees commonly found farther south.
We had a decent number of volunteers out, including several coming early, to burn log piles on two sides of a small pond not far from Old Country Lane at Spears. The fires were a delight to start and burned with no trouble at all.
We're nearing the end of tree-thinning season now, with at least a couple more sessions of cleanup from the good work done by sawyers of Atrium Landscape. Then we shall continue brush-cutting, probably through the end of April, before moving on to garlic mustard and summer weeds.
Our restoration Sunday at McClaughrey Springs was canceled due to beyond-brisk winds.
Bizarre Weather Pattern Volume, again
In the space of seven days recently, we had four with no brush pile burning allowed, due to high winds with a couple days of low humidity and one bona-fide Red Flag warning. No wailing or wringing of hands here; we'll get whatever needs to be done on another day, and when your activity is outdoors you expect weather interruptions.
The greater concern is weather patterns that continue in this vein and their impact on local habitat. In last week's Play Dates we shared a link about the effect of warm winter days in hastening the emergence of insects and amphibians, and the domino effect on other species farther up the food chain. Over the longer term we can expect changes in flora, some of which we're seeing already with migration of trees commonly found farther south.
RSS Feed