Friday, July 8

Barry set off toward the pond but couldn't resist scything around the clump of trees growing by the old retaining wall across from where the Bill Holland trail comes out at the main FWG sign near the parking lot. He then spent about 1.5 hours continuing to scythe the areas south of the pond, i.e., the remaining patch on the south slope down to the pond and much of the remaining DSV in the west side of the field south of the pond trail. The plants are very tall, heavy with pods and twining around each other, pulling themselves over with the weight, making scything very difficult. Some still remains to clear. The good news is that several milkweed plants were braving it out in the midst of this heavy infestation. Before and after photos were taken. After break, Barry and Sandy had a good discussion on how things are going with the TISG. She has some good ideas in regard to databasing our photographs.