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Invasive plant is target of May 15 stewardship day
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is requesting volunteers for a stewardship day being held at the Highland Recreation Area from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sunday, May 15.
Volunteers are needed to help remove garlic mustard — “a nasty, non-native, invasive plant,” according to the DNR — that is currently threatening to take over the high-quality woodlands within the Highland Recreation Area.
Those interested in helping are asked to meet at the bike trailhead parking lot on the north side of Livingston Road between Duck Lake and Waterbury roads. Volunteers are asked to be on time because some will be shuttled to other locations within the recreation area.
More information on this stewardship day, as well as registration forms, can be found by clicking on the “Calendar of Volunteer Stewardship Workdays” link at the DNR’s website at michigan.gov/dnrvolunteers.
Those with additional questions can call Steve, a volunteer steward, at 248-877-4386.
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Cindy
May 5, 2011 at 12:59 pm
I was wondering , as I watch the trees die around my area, why nothing is being done about the ivy climbing the trees , and killing them. We make a big deal out of planting a tree, but nothing is said about the hundreds of trees in this Lake area that are being killed by this ivy.
I go out each day, once the plant starts to grow, and cut it down, up and down by street, and the park I live near. but I actually see this plant crawling up trees in people’s front yards, and they do nothing about it. I am amazed. Can’t we also get somethng going where we can stop this plant???