April 2010

Lauren Smith and Stewart Craig pulling up Japanese Barberry.Cooper Shumway applying a weed wrench to a stubborn Japanese Barberry.Lauren Smith, Stewart Craig, Tim Olson pulling up Japanese Barberry.Attacking Japanese barberry with a weed wrench.
The afternoon of April 9th seven students from Professor Scott Shumway’s “Alien Invasion” Senior Seminar joined nineteen Boy Scouts from Troop 100 Westborough to remove invasive plants from the Walkup and Robinson Memorial Reservation.  The Wheaton students prepared a photographic field guide to invasive / non-native plants that the scouts used to guide their efforts to eradicate Japanese Barberry, Bush Honeysuckle, and Burning Bush from this 62 acre conservation area owned by the Sudbury Valley Trustees.
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