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Students Pull For Invasive Species Day At Erie Bluffs State Park
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Twenty-five students mounted a counter attack on the invasion of non-native trees and plants at Erie Bluffs State Park as part of an effort to restore natives to their natural habitat.
The students were from the Horticulture and Landscape Management program at Central Tech High School, and were joined by Tim Church, Tim Watson, intern Jared McGarvey, DCNR’s Tom Erdman, Ephraim Zimmerman and Jeff Wagner of the Western PA Conservancy, and Marti Martz from PA Sea Grant.
Students tubed more than 200 oak saplings that are revegetating a 25-acre area formerly used for agriculture. Historically an oak savannah, this is the second season this area has not been farmed—and native species are beginning to germinate from the seed bank.
The oak saplings were tubed to protect them from browsing by deer. The tubes were provided by DCNR’s Bureau of Forestry and are approximately 48 inches tall. Seven bags of invasive species were also pulled in an area that was heavily infested until last year by locust, Japanese honeysuckle and garlic mustard.
The program is part of an ongoing restoration partnership at Erie Bluffs State Park among DCNR, the Western PA Conservancy and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Reprinted from DCNR's online newsletter Resource.
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6/14/2010 |
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