[MAIPC] Annual invasive plant control in my 200 acre Ruth B. Swann Park in Charles County

[Sullivan, Jeanne]

Good for you!  Keeping invasives at bay is never easy.

I've been volunteering at Cunningham Falls State Park in Frederick County,
MD, and at Frederick County parks.  After a few-months pause, volunteers
went back to CF Park, focusing on removing invasives, most often along the
Falls trail in the park.  We have focused mainly on wineberry, barberry and
garlic mustard, which are all reduced in the areas on which we focused, but
not eliminated.  Stiltgrass was abundant there last week, sadly.

County parks have just recently allowed volunteers back for organized
events.  Today was the first park-organized event at Fountain Rock Park.  I
planted lots of black-eyed Susans (donated via Cunningham Falls!) around
the park buildings.
Jeanne
Jeanne Sullivan


On Wed, Jun 9, 2021, 4:49 PM Marc Imlay <ialm at erols.com> wrote:

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> Annual invasive plant control in 200 acre Ruth B. Swann Park in Charles
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> Because of the pandemic, the volunteers have not been available.
> Nevertheless, !70 acres of the 200 acre park have been completed in 2021.
> All of the garlic mustard, multiflora rose, privets, Leather leaf Mahonia,
> Japanese barberry, English Ivy, and oriental bittersweet have been removed.
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> We also removed ¾th of the wineberry, Mock strawberry, Japanese
> honeysuckle, and ground ivy. Next we will remove the beefsteak plant.
> Unfortunately, way too much Japanese stilt grass has moved in from
> everywhere. So we are waiting for a biological control to arrive someday.
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> If this 82 year old nature maven can do it so can you! So how well are you
> all doing?
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> Marc Imlay
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> Maryland Sierra Club Natural Places Committee.
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