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Jim & Schatzi Ball at the Ball Tree Farm. Photo by David Stoner / MDC. 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!...
On October 12, 2024, the Thomas Hart-Benton Group of The Sierra Club (the THB Group), along with its partners, organized the beginnings of a successful Callery pear tree (Pyrus calleryiana) removal project at the interchange of I-470 and Lakeside Drive in the Kansas...
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...
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Removing invasive shrubs to restore native forest habitat brings a surprising result, according to Penn State researchers, who say desired native understory plants display an unexpected ability and vigor to recolonize open spots. Read More...
St. Louis Community College-Meramec takes action to remove an aggressive, exotic vine that is invading St. Louis and Missouri. The sycamore tree was so smothered by a dense vine that its white trunk appeared green. The campus of St. Louis Community College-Meramec...
Do your part to reduce this highly invasive tree that threatens native wildlife and causes difficulties for private and public landowners, and receive a free native tree! Jefferson City, MO (April 15, 2019)—Homeowners with an invasive tree in their yard can celebrate...
From Gwyn Wahlmann: Emmenegger Nature Park is a 110-acre wooded park in Kirkwood, Missouri, located on the Meramec River and endowed with unusual natural beauty and biological diversity. As an "adopt-a-park" subset of Kirkwood Parks Assistance Corps (KPAC), a small...
Wintercreeper (Euonymous fortunei) can be controlled in spring, when new foliage emerges. When the ground is wet, small vines can be pulled. Large stems climbing up trees can be carefully cut, with the cut stem treated with herbicide (40% triclopyr solution when above freezing). Foliage can be treated with a 3% triclopyr solution, mixed with a non-ionic surfactant along with methylated seed oil or similar crop oil to help the herbicide stay on the foliage for better uptake by the plant.