Willow Springs Woods Saturday March 28
Another Saturday in the vicinity of Katydid Slough, working primarily on multi-flora rose in an area vying to become the MF Rose capital of Palos. Several of us missed this one, visiting No Kings events at different locations.
Brush pile burns were not allowed Saturday or Sunday; Forest Preserves crews were doing prescribed burns and the fire managers didn't want those crews diverted by a possible mishap on a brush pile burn, given somewhat low humidity and brisk breezes that increase the risk of such incidents. With the window for prescribed burns rapidly closing I can't argue with that reasoning. (Not getting to sample Iza Redlinski's soup at her Sunday Brookfield workday due to no fire for cooking - now THAT'S a sacrifice for sure.)
So volunteers slashed and dragged and built feeder piles for the next visit to this part of Willow Springs, on the north side of 95th Street opposite Crawdad Slough to the south.
With no Palos restoration activity last Sunday I escaped to Brookfield Prairie to help cut and stack buckthorn along the 26th Street side of the site. Over the last couple years volunteers have chipped away at a large thicket of buckthorn that runs west from 1st Avenue for several blocks. They've made remarkable progress despite its density and the usual presence of spring mud due to hydrology of the location.
Another Saturday in the vicinity of Katydid Slough, working primarily on multi-flora rose in an area vying to become the MF Rose capital of Palos. Several of us missed this one, visiting No Kings events at different locations.
Brush pile burns were not allowed Saturday or Sunday; Forest Preserves crews were doing prescribed burns and the fire managers didn't want those crews diverted by a possible mishap on a brush pile burn, given somewhat low humidity and brisk breezes that increase the risk of such incidents. With the window for prescribed burns rapidly closing I can't argue with that reasoning. (Not getting to sample Iza Redlinski's soup at her Sunday Brookfield workday due to no fire for cooking - now THAT'S a sacrifice for sure.)
So volunteers slashed and dragged and built feeder piles for the next visit to this part of Willow Springs, on the north side of 95th Street opposite Crawdad Slough to the south.
With no Palos restoration activity last Sunday I escaped to Brookfield Prairie to help cut and stack buckthorn along the 26th Street side of the site. Over the last couple years volunteers have chipped away at a large thicket of buckthorn that runs west from 1st Avenue for several blocks. They've made remarkable progress despite its density and the usual presence of spring mud due to hydrology of the location.
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