THE SHORT VERSION:

Work party to manage Japanese Knotweed at Crane Brook, next Sunday, 7/10, 10:00 - noon. Meet at the parking lot just past the town garage on New Road. Bring tools to cut or dig knotweed along the roadside. Please bring a mask, just in case. Please sign up for this work party in this document--https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CARULiL5gHbkaFp8GaoqxGJw6fUHjJhf3ik8W_EaM8U/edit. I'll send email at 9:45 am if we need to cancel/reschedule.

THE DETAILS:

The Underhill Conservation Commission continues its efforts to control Japanese knotweed along the Crane Brook Trail this summer. We are using a few different manual methods in an attempt to determine which is the least labor-intensive and the most effective, with a goal of protecting the Crane Brook without using herbicides.

We're in our fourth summer of working to control this prolific invasive, and we're seeing some significant reduction!

We intend to hold "work parties" every few weeks throughout the growing season, and we invite you to join us. We'll pull, dig, and cut knotweed using hand tools like mattocks, pulaskis, shovels, loppers, hand sickles, and swingblades.

The next work party of the summer is next Sunday, 7/10, from 10 a.m. until noon. Although we'd love to have your help for the full two hours, please feel free to come late or leave early. Any time you can contribute will be greatly appreciated!

Please sign up for this work party in this document-- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CARULiL5gHbkaFp8GaoqxGJw6fUHjJhf3ik8W_EaM8U/edit. I'll send email at 9:45 am Sunday morning if we need to cancel/reschedule.

We'll meet at the parking area just past the Town Garage on New Road at 10:00 and will walk north on the trail (old road).

Please bring any tools you have. And please bring a mask. Hopefully, everyone is fully vaccinated, but if someone has concerns, we might want to wear masks when we're in close proximity.

Depending on the number of volunteers, we hope to expand our efforts in future work parties to work on other invasive species on Town land, such as honeysuckle, wild (or poison) parsnip, buckthorn, and more.

For more information on invasives in general, please see https://vtinvasives.org/. And for some of my personal thinking about Japanese knotweed, please see https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jH_1a-H2dez8uyYoqskLp5EhnXBVT_iY3gPboERyb3I/edit.

Thanks!

Steve Webster
stevew831@gmail.com
for the Underhill Conservation Commission

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