Stewards at Ned Brinkley preserve have had several workdays over the last four months to get some invasive plant species there under control. We all realize that this is going to be a long-term project and will require more workdays and repeated attempts at removal.
A number of us met in November and walked the property, marking invasive trees that we recognized including callery pear, ailanthus, chinaberry, and mimosa. There is a lot of privet which we have ignored for now.
Paul Anderson, Britney Collins, and I spent several days cutting, loading and hauling eight F150 pickup loads of cut debris. All stumps were treated to prevent regrowth. Cuttings were deposited at the county landfill next door.
Wild guess is that we cut and treated ~ ailanthus and nearly that many pears. But who is counting!
We used a combination of cutting and stump treatment with herbicide, physical removal of smaller plants with a “Weed Wrench” tool, and “hack and squirt” for bigger trees.
It’s too early to know how much success we’ve had but so far none of the stumps/stems to be regenerating/regrowing.
