Mills Riverside Park has a honeysuckle plant species that is invasive, spreading, and that competes aggressively with native plants, can destroy biodiversity, and permanently alter habitats through both direct and indirect effects.

We invite you to join us - JFiN (Jericho Families in Nature), the Jericho Underhill Park District, the Jericho Conservation Commission, and the Jericho Trails Committee - on Saturday, May 20, from 10 AM-Noon to cut down invasive honeysuckle at Mills Riverside Park.

Bring loppers, hand saws, gloves, safety glasses, and water to drink. Dress as appropriate for tick protection. The plan is to do mostly cutting, (to prevent seed spread and to diminish the strength of the plants), though we may do some pulling up of roots as well. It can take annual visits (cutdown management) to an area over consecutive seasons to really clear the potentially seed-bearing plants.

RSVP to Bernie Paquette.
Mark your calendars - May 20, 10 AM

Similar to how Green Up Day has brought hordes of volunteers together to clean our roads and waterways – a remarkable grassroots accomplishment – Invasives Day could have a great positive effect on our local environment. You can read the proposal to have the legislature designate a Vermont Invasives Management Day at https://jerichovermont.blogspot.com/2023/01/invasive-plants-management-day-proposal.html

For more invasive Honeysuckle information view the VT Invasive web page at https://vtinvasives.org/invasive/honeysuckles-shrub

Stop the spread - Let's not give up without a fight: https://jerichovermont.blogspot.com/2021/05/are-we-giving-up-without-fight.html

Public Engagement for People & Nature
Remember to leave room for wild things
Bernie

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