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great ideas! We organize about 4 group work days a week to remove non-native invasive plants. We shared information about cooking with Garlic Mustard (pesto).

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Thanks for your interesting comment! It would be great if there were photos! We could not find any.

Hi Don, Ross does not follow KZbin, so I will try and respond instead. Friends of Sligo Creek is an all-volunteer watershed group. We have about 50 volunteers who are certified by Montgomery Parks to remove Non-native Invasive (NNI) plants through the Montgomery Weed Warrior program (montgomeryparks.org/caring-for-our-parks/natural-spaces/weed-warriors/). As volunteers we are greatly restricted on how we can manage NNIs. We are not permitted to use herbicides or digging tools like shovels. Our groups focus is Sligo Creek Park and Long Branch Park. That is a 10-15-mile-long stream valley park. The parkland has been heavily disturbed and we have an over abundance of white-tailed deer, so we have some serious problems with NNIs. We have multiple work days each week. Our work group that meets on Wednesday mornings focuses on tackling new NNI invaders to our watershed (like Wavyleaf Basketgrass) and clearing NNIs from reforestation sites, restored wetlands and stormwater landscape areas like vegetated swales. Last week our work group removed Porcelainberry vines from a restored “pocket wetland.” This week we will be working with students removing Japanese Barberry and other NNIs. We will use the workday as a learning session for them. We have done many outreach events including making post cards with our top ten NNIs and staffing information tables at community events. Our Outreach Team also shares information about our Weed Warrior Program. We have recently joined our region’s PRISM initiative. We have a listserv to share information with each other. We are fortunate that we have some retired USDA experts in the field of NNIs. We have had some successes, but constantly need to stay on top of the NNIs (along with litter and water quality). Your organization appears much larger and professional managed. It sounds like you all are doing great things. Glad to see that you all are doing great things. Ed Murtagh Friends of Sligo Creek.

The ponds are near the Kemp Mill Shopping Center.

When you find the trail, go to the left and will see it on your right after walking for for a minute or so.

It is upstream of Windham. Near the outdoor fitness workout area near Breewood. You know your Sligo bridges!!

Thanks for all your efforts in 2021! Looking forward to seeing all you will do in 2022!

Awesome. I am proud of you Steve. After all these years still caring about our watershed!

Thank you, Karen! Ed

Thanks, Dee! Ed

Thanks, Alan! Ed

Sorry to hear that you have MIle-a-Minute near you. The berries do look dramatic. Too bad the vines smother so many trees and shrubs.

Thank you for you comment and thank you for battling it in your yard!

That is our obseration too. It is very hard to get every piece of root. It is sometimes hard to find the basketgrass within the Stiltgrass. We have been trying to control the basketgrass for years and at best we can only slow the spread. We did some basketgrass pulls in the spring before the stiltgrass was present, but went back in the August and found a lot. Seeds are sticky and will spread on your cloths. Grim stuff is a good term for it! Ed

@@FriendsofSligoCreek Are you trying to avoid herbicides or have you not had good luck with spraying? I'm down here in the Shenandoah Valley (Page Co. and Warren Co.) and were under attack by the stuff. I'm spraying it with glyphosate now (end of May) and am about to switch to clethodim.

@@johnr6179 as County Park volunteers, we are not permitted to use herbicides and some tools. The restrictions do make our work more difficult at times!

@@johnr6179 I've been using Acclaim on stiltgrass, and have discovered I have areas of wavyleaf basketgrass underneath. I've sprayed it with Accalim and am awaiting results. So far the areas I've found are not too big and are hand pullable if that does not work. I'm in Maryland and this seems to be an increasing problem, as if we didn't already have enough invasives to getting on with! LOL