With the ongoing challenge of controlling invasive plants in native habitats, along roadsides, on working lands, yards, around businesses, schools, and in parks, we can all use some good news!
We hope that in reading these stories, you will have an added spring in your step as you carry your lopers, backpack sprayer, or other control tools to your work site. Many thanks to MoIP Associate and City WildLands Program Manager Hunter Moore for contributing the success story below.
The Kansas City metro area is home to stunning landscapes, wide prairies, sunny woodlands, shaded forests, and rich wetlands. Bridging The Gap’s Kansas City WildLands (KCWL) program is a coalition of resource professionals, private conservation organizations, and conservation-minded citizens that works to preserve and restore the healthiest and most diverse of these ecosystems in the area—public lands that are open for all to enjoy.
Kansas City WildLands has been battling invasive plants throughout the Kansas City metro for 25+ years. Restoration is a tortoise and the hare situation—slow and steady often wins the race. By using a variety of management tools including volunteer outreach, prescribed fire, and cut-stump treatments, this year, several remnant native ecosystems are really “showing out” after last year’s efforts.
Kansas City WildLands has many invasive plant control volunteer opportunities. To learn more, visit Volunteer – Bridging the Gap.
Enjoy the success story photos below and remember what you do makes a difference!
