Glossy Buckthorn Removal at Cooperrider - Kent Bog State Nature Preserve
ORGANIZATION: OHIO NATURAL AREAS AND PRESERVES ASSOCIATION
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Kent Bog is a living relict from the Ice Age. In glacial times, the boreal forest, including tamarack, dominated the landscape far south of northern Ohio. Today, however, Kent Bog supports the largest, southernmost stand of tamarack in the continental United States. There are over 3,500 tamaracks in the population with many robust seedlings growing among the larger trees. Here, too, is a fine population of gray birch, also a tree of more northern distribution. Gray Birch and tamarack are both potentially threatened species in Ohio.
We will be removing invasive glossy buckthorn using a combination of cutting and treating the cut stems with herbicide, as well as hand pulling seedlings (which are numerous). Trained DNAP staff and ONAPA volunteers will conduct the herbicide application.
Directions: From I-76 east, take the Kent exit (SR 43) north to Meloy Road, then head west (turn left) to the parking lot.
What to bring: Bring lunch, water, rubber/leather gloves and muck/knee boots.
RSVP: To sign up: http://www.onapa.org/stewardship-project-registration.html
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About OHIO NATURAL AREAS AND PRESERVES ASSOCIATION
Location:
PO BOX 415, JOHNSTOWN, OH 43031, US
Mission Statement
We are dedicated to promoting, protecting and improving Ohio natural areas and preserves.
Description
Onapa is an Ohio based nonprofit dedicated to:
(1) help establish and support local nature preserve friends groups throughout Ohio for both state and non-state natural areas,
(2) provide a support group for the sustainable management of state nature preserves as well as other natural areas around the state,
(3) educate, promote and advance natural areas issues within the Ohio General Assembly as well as with the general public, and
(4) promote the protection of rare species of plants and animals and rare ecosystems.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
1028 Meloy RoadKent, OH 44240
DATE POSTED
September 16, 2016
SKILLS
- Habitat Restoration
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- 5 hours