Spears Woods Saturday September 6
I don't have any information on this one - could not attend and didn't get a report from anyone that did.
I can report that last week Thursday Margaret Tobin had Doug Bosco out at Cap Sauers, reducing the recently-expanded population of giant ragweed in certain spots where it was shading and crowding out normal native flora. This, as she explained in a FB post, is a management decision that is carefully made in partnership with our regional ecologist and limited to more extreme proliferation of native species that normally coexist in balance with other natives.
McClaughrey Springs Sunday September 7, 2025
This was our first brush-cutting day of the fall season here in Palos and came on a morning cool enough that the fires were not overbearing. We were joined by members of the Thorn Creek Resource Management crew (always a boon when the crew can come), cutting brush along the east side of Mill Creek near the Yellow Trail's north side.
Targets were primarily honeysuckle and we had plenty of them, some cut right along the creek and others farther east. We had two fires, both reluctant to start which may have been due to all the moist green fuel we were throwing in. Eventually everything got burned. We had a good turnout for a Sunday morning - thank you volunteers!
Several of the pictures below were taken at Little Red Schoolhouse Tuesday night, at a photography class/walk done by naturalist Kevin. Excellent time!
I don't have any information on this one - could not attend and didn't get a report from anyone that did.
I can report that last week Thursday Margaret Tobin had Doug Bosco out at Cap Sauers, reducing the recently-expanded population of giant ragweed in certain spots where it was shading and crowding out normal native flora. This, as she explained in a FB post, is a management decision that is carefully made in partnership with our regional ecologist and limited to more extreme proliferation of native species that normally coexist in balance with other natives.
McClaughrey Springs Sunday September 7, 2025
This was our first brush-cutting day of the fall season here in Palos and came on a morning cool enough that the fires were not overbearing. We were joined by members of the Thorn Creek Resource Management crew (always a boon when the crew can come), cutting brush along the east side of Mill Creek near the Yellow Trail's north side.
Targets were primarily honeysuckle and we had plenty of them, some cut right along the creek and others farther east. We had two fires, both reluctant to start which may have been due to all the moist green fuel we were throwing in. Eventually everything got burned. We had a good turnout for a Sunday morning - thank you volunteers!
Several of the pictures below were taken at Little Red Schoolhouse Tuesday night, at a photography class/walk done by naturalist Kevin. Excellent time!
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