Invasive Plant Removal

 

 

This isn't Hawaii or some remote, sensitive habitat; this is New England.       Invasive plants are causing havoc with our eco-system.     Often, they crowd out native species and also destroy the very environment that is found in a typical natural setting.

 

Worse, they destroy our river system, crowding out species, depriving the area of vital nutrients and making an area one-species specific and thus destroying a healthy diversity.

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Here is a short video on the threat to the environment from just one invasive plant species.      The Aquatic species are even more insidious and are causing great damage to our watershed!

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Pepperweed.

 

Fragmites.

 

Japanese Knotweed.

 

Oriental Bittersweet

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Water Chestnut

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Fragmites

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Millfoil

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Purple Loosestrife

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Parker River Clean Water Association volunteers are working to hold back the environmental damage by conducting events of removing water chestnut, millfoil and pepperweed.     All you need is a canoe (or hip boots), gloves and a dedicated spirit that doesn't mind that the body gets wet!

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Volunteers will be needed in the Fall when forest invasive plants are tackled such as Oriental Bittersweet.    Hand clippers and lopers and a lot of patience. (Considering the devastation in some areas covers whole forests.)     But oh so satisfying, knowing that the next year will see expanses of healthy woodlands!

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