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OARS Water Chestnut Project
Project Organization: OARS Project Town(s): Concord, Hudson, Maynard, Stow Start Date: June 1, 2019Project Summary:
OARS’ Rapid Response Team is hired from June-August to hand-pull water chestnut along the Assabet and Concord Rivers everywhere that it was found. Volunteers also engaged in hand-pulling on several impoundment sections of the river plus the Sudbury River at Rte 2. Read more
Habitat Types: RiverControl Methods: Manual Disposal Methods: Composting off site (away from river edge)
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
Friends of ARNWR: Assabet Pulling Together
Project Organization: Assabet Pulling Together Project Town(s): Maynard Start Date: April 1, 2014Project Summary:
From Spring to fall each year, volunteers come out each Saturday to work on manual control of invasives. Read more
Habitat Types: Abandoned lot/home site, Field/forest edge, Fields, Roadside edge, Upland/wetland edgeControl Methods: Manual Disposal Methods: Brush Pile, Incineration, Bagging, Left on site
Lincoln Conservation Organizations’ Wall Lettuce Project
Project Organization: Lincoln Conservation Organizations Project Town(s): Lincoln Start Date: June 1, 2013Project Summary:
This six acre wall lettuce infestation site has been worked on for four years via pulling. We discovered infestations of wall lettuce in a few locations throughout town and were alarmed at the size and location of this patch because it was along a right-of-way and was also penetrating into… Read more
Habitat Types: Hemlock forest, Right-of-way, Upland/wetland edgeControl Methods: Manual Disposal Methods: Left on site
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
Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge Project
Project Organization: FWS Project Town(s): Sudbury Start Date: May 1, 2012Project Summary:
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, 2012Project 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 edgeControl 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, 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
Westford Conservation Trust’s Mile-a-Minute Project
Project Organization: Westford Conservation Trust Project Town(s): Westford Start Date: June 1, 2010Project Summary:
The Mile-a-minute(MAM) plant is an early detection species and even though they are an annual they are prodigious seed producers and can rapidly take over acres of land by smothering existing vegetation. At first it is hard to believe that an annual vine which initially looks fragile and pretty with… Read more
Habitat Types: Field/forest edge, Fields, Roadside edge, Stream bank, Upland/wetland edgeControl Methods: Manual Disposal Methods: Incineration, Bagging