Projects

Town of Stow’s Captain Sargent Conservation Area

Project Organization: Stow Conservation Commission  Project Town(s): Stow  Start Date: July 1, 2015

Project Summary:

This project is a portion of a CPA funded project to treat Japanese knotweed, glossy buckthorn, bittersweet, and Japanese barberry at Captain Sargent which was surveyed and mapped for invasives in 2014. Other properties mapped for invasives as a part of this project are Flagg Hill, Town Forest, Heath Hen… Read more

Habitat Types: Field/forest edge, Forest
Control Methods: Chemical, Mechanical  Disposal Methods: Incineration

Sudbury Valley Trustees’ Desert Natural Area

Project Organization: Sudbury Valley Trustees  Project Town(s): Sudbury  Start Date: June 1, 2012

Project Summary:

SVT and the City of Marlborough have employed a variety of techniques to control all invasive plants throughout the 600-acre Desert Natural Area over the course of the last 5 years and going forward. Read more

Habitat Types: Field/forest edge, Floodplain forest, Herbaceous marsh, Oak/pine forest, Pitch pine forest, Right-of-way, Stream bank, Upland/wetland edge
Control Methods: Chemical, Manual, Mechanical  Disposal Methods: Left on site, buckthorn piles with roots off ground

Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge Project

Project Organization: FWS  Project Town(s): Sudbury  Start Date: May 1, 2012

Project Summary:

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Habitat Types: Field/forest edge, Wet meadow
Control Methods: Chemical, Manual  Disposal Methods: Incineration, Bagging

Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge Project

Project Organization: FWS  Project Town(s): Maynard  Start Date: April 15, 2012

Project Summary:

Pathfinder II herbicide treatment and manual pulling and cutting were used to control invasive species across the management area over the course of one year with planned follow-up monitoring. Read more

Habitat Types: Field/forest edge, Fields, Floodplain forest, Pitch pine forest, Shrub wetland, Upland/wetland edge
Control Methods: Chemical, Manual  Disposal Methods: Incineration, Bagging

Walden Woods Project’s Bear Garden Hill

Project Organization: The Walden Woods Project  Project Town(s): Concord  Start Date: May 1, 2012

Project Summary:

Manual control was done repeatedly on garlic mustard and glossy buckthorn populations. Mowing of the field was followed up by four total days of herbicide application by New England Wildflower. Read more

Habitat Types: Agricultural field, Field/forest edge
Control Methods: Chemical, Manual, Mechanical  Disposal Methods: Brush Pile, Incineration, Removal by New England Wildflower

Trustees of Reservations Black Swallowwort Control

Project Organization: The Trustees  Project Town(s): Concord  Start Date: August 13, 2009

Project Summary:

All swallowwort was treated with herbicide Read more

Habitat Types: Field/forest edge, Fields, Stream bank
Control Methods: Chemical, Manual  Disposal Methods: Left on site

Sudbury Valley Trustees Greenways Conservation Area

Project Organization: Sudbury Valley Trustees  Project Town(s): Wayland  Start Date: September 1, 2005

Project Summary:

Mechanical clearing and mowing was done on the field which was followed up by four years of herbicide treatment and native planting projects. Read more

Habitat Types: Field/forest edge, Fields, Upland/wetland edge, Wet meadow
Control Methods: Chemical, Manual  Disposal Methods: Brush Pile, Left on site