NATIVE AREAS DATA BY NUMBERED SECTIONS WITH MAP
Area 11:
Upland Woods (includes far South deer exclosure)
Work Started:
1995
Preexisting conditions:
Not many Buckthorns, dense covering of Sugar Maples. A lot of Garlic Mustard. Nice colonies of Spring Ephemerals- Toothwort, Woodland Anemone, Leek (South) Many mature Sugar Maples + Red Oak
Work done:
Trees:
(1995) Thin a few Sugar Maples
(1995) Cut Buckthorn
Shrubs:
(1995) In deer exclosure, two Gooseberries.
Vines:
(1995) Cat's Briar adjacent to Deer Exclosure.
(2002-2004) Moon Seed showed up in Deer Exclosure.
Plants:
(2002) Student grown Woodland grasses planted along scope adjacent to drainage stream (Area 13).
(2002) Black Raspberries thinned in Deer Exclosure.
Seeds:
(2003) Woodland grasses and some Forbs in Far South section adjacent to Drainage Ditch (Area 13).
Weeds:
(1995) Garlic Mustard, Canada Thistle
Burn:
(2000-2001) Deer Exclosure area only
Other:
Positive:
(2003) Garlic Mustard almost under control in Southern area
Deer exclosure – nice recovery of Penn Sedge, Geraniums, Gooseberry, some grasses, Figwort, Red Trillium, Moon Seed
Negative:
(2003-04) Large amounts of work to do throughout.
(2003-04) Northern section – very degraded
(2003-04) 90% if ground barren of vegetation by Summer
(2003-04) Slope adjacent to Floodplain (Area 10) eroding, barren
Work to Do: |
Work
Completed: |
| Thin Sugar Maples | Thin Sugar Maples (2003-04) |
| Burn | Burn (2003-04) |
| Garlic Mustard | Garlic Mustard (2003-04) |
| Terrace slope adjacent to Floodplain (Area 10) | Terrace slope adjacent to Floodplain (Area 10) (2003-04) |
| Seed small areas to start | Seed small areas to start (2003-04) |
Comments: Remnants of farming in Central area
