Buckthorn removal event is scheduled for Friday October 8 at the Fertile Nature Center
FERTILE, Minn. – The University made from Minnesota-Crookston Natural Resources Club testament lead a buckthorn removal demonstration project starting at 1 p.m. up to 6 p.m. on Friday, October 8 near certain Agassiz Environmental Learning Center, 400 Summit Ave. SW, Fertile. Each public is invited in order to attend to learn in which way toward identify as well as control buckthorn, an invasive non-native shrub, plus support in case they wish.
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Laura Bell, UMC Natural Resources Department Laboratory Manager and Natural Resources Club Advisor, testament provide information on each lifetime cycle belonging to buckthorn, including seed viability which one have to seem monitored for several years. Buckthorn grows out of seeds either suckers. A method made from control to become demonstrated will seem in order to cut the buckthorn next to of it base along with apply a chemical product up to any stump whatever a factory desire lower internal its own roots and kill itself, thus avoiding suckering provided a factory possesses exclusively stood cut. .
Buckthorn retains its own leaves later in each fall more than almost any different shrub or tree plus is therefore easy in order to identify. Buckthorn contains invaded certain understory out of the Duckstad Woods along with spread along the Sand Hill River, however is in no way yet thus prevalent among each fertile sand hills.
Volunteers are invited to support control any spread of current aggressive invasive species toward prevent something since overtaking more desirable natural species by each Agassiz ELC site.
For more information concerning certain program either toward acquire involved inside the ongoing monitoring of buckthorn, contact Wayne Goeken, Executive Director out of Agassiz ELC, around (218) 280-0516.
