November 22, 2010
Final Foray
During the last regularly scheduled invasive weed removal session in 2010, five volunteers removed common and glossy buckthorns (Rhamnus cathartica and Frangula alnus) from the woods between Neville Place and the Lusitania Meadow, where thetrees were growing around four enormous American beech trees (Fagus grandifolia.) Watershed Manager's Assistant Deb Albenberg (left photo) has led weeding sessions throughout the summer and fall. During this and three earlier sessions near the beech trees, weeders cleared a large swath of woods and left an enormous mound of uprooted buckthorns.