Control Method: Mechanical
Projects
Town of Stow’s Japanese Stiltgrass Project
Project Organization: Stow Conservation Commission Project Town(s): Stow Start Date: August 12, 2015Project Summary:
The Stow Conservation Commission has been actively monitoring and managing a patch of Japanese stiltgrass (Microstegium vimineum) an early detection species, located at Flagg Hill Conservation Land which was identified in 2014. The Conservation Commission had received reports of Japanese stiltgrass patches in other areas of Flagg Hill and at… Read more
Habitat Types: Mixed ForestControl Methods: Manual, Mechanical Disposal Methods: Bagging
Town of Stow’s Captain Sargent Conservation Area
Project Organization: Stow Conservation Commission Project Town(s): Stow Start Date: July 1, 2015Project 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, ForestControl 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, 2012Project 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 edgeControl Methods: Chemical, Manual, Mechanical Disposal Methods: Left on site, buckthorn piles with roots off ground
Walden Woods Project’s Bear Garden Hill
Project Organization: The Walden Woods Project Project Town(s): Concord Start Date: May 1, 2012Project 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 edgeControl Methods: Chemical, Manual, Mechanical Disposal Methods: Brush Pile, Incineration, Removal by New England Wildflower