We generally use the term "restoration" to refer to what we are doing. Sometimes the noun is modified into "ecological restoration".Sometimes the word "reconstruction" is used instead of "restoration". The…

Today four of us used the basal bark technique with Garlon 4 in Bark Oil to treat mostly small buckthorn stems, as well as brambles, an occasional honeysuckle, and some…

It is not finished yet, but we have a good start on the boardwalk, which will go across our marsh to Pleasant Valley Creek. This project has been designed and…

I am studying the distribution of buckthorn in relation to soil calcium and pH. This started because there was an interesting distribution of buckthorn at Pleasant Valley Conservancy which was…

As readers if these posts know, sweet clover (Melilotus albus and M. officinalis) is one of our major scourges of the summer. It has a very long-lived seed bank and…

Prairie dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepis) is one of those conservative prairie species that has a quite restricted distribution in Wisconsin and elsewhere. According to Cochrane and Iltis, it is an indicator…

Yesterday I attended GIS Day at the Memorial Union. This annual event is held throughout the world as part of National Geography Awareness Week. GIS (Geographic Information Systems) has become…

Hedge parsley (Torilis japonica) is a newly "emerging" invasive plant that has recently become of considerable concern. In a sense, we at Pleasant Valley Conservancy have been one of the…

On Saturday we planted the East Basin, a major job and a satisfying end to a lot of hard work this fall. We had 18 volunteers and we could not…

Although we were not able to burn this fall (too busy getting ready to plant the East Basin), the last week has been ideal burn weather. This is the period…