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Oriental Bittersweet is Invading the Park

   
Turbo

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Barked: Sun Oct 8, '06 10:16am PST 
We aren't allowed to act on our own but I've contacted the parks people and maybe we can set up a volunteer weekend to remove this vine which kills trees and reduces the bird population.

Edited by author Tue Oct 17, '06 9:50am PST

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Diesel

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Barked: Tue Oct 17, '06 9:23am PST 
Brittany Bird, GIS Tech/ Natural Resources Specialist at Oakland County Parks & Recreation has replied to my letter about the ivy that is strangling the trees and hurting the birds.

We are meeting - and others are welcome to join us - at the park on Wednesday at 2:00 to look at the situation and plan for a volunteer day.

I have combined parts of her emails into this announcement:

"Thank you for your concern about the bittersweet at Orion. I think that your idea for organizing a stewardship activity for removing the vines along some of the pathways is a good one.

"Why don’t you and I meet on Wed. at 2p at the bark park parking lot off of Joslyn Road. We won’t plan to do any removal Wed. afternoon, just to assess which areas that we would like to target on the actual removal day (hopefully to be set for the next week or two). This will allow us to get a better handle on the number of people and type of cutting and removal equipment that I will need to pull together from Parks. If you know of others that are interested in joining us Wed. they are more than welcome to scout out some bittersweet with us.

"Once this is decided, we can choose a date and time to circulate within our respective groups. Advertising the activity through your dogster.com site sounds like a great idea, and I can coordinate Park staff on this end. Parks can provide equipment for cutting (hand pruners and saws) and dispose of the bittersweet that we pull out. My thought is that we should try to schedule a volunteer activity sooner rather than later – the bittersweet is nicely identifiable this time of year in its fall yellow color – making it easy for volunteers to spot and pull.

"Thanks again for your interest & concern for controlling invasives in the Parks!"
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