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Title: November
15, 2015 Stewardship Day notes at Lower Chrome
Location: Lower Chrome Serpentine Barrens.
Attendees: In
addition to Molly: Chris Hoess, Tracy
Raymond, Bill Whittaker, Rodney Stark, Patsy Koning, Rocky Gleason & Tony
Davis
Accomplishments:
Molly
Anderson reports:
The
group met in the main parking lot of Upper Chrome at 9:00 a.m. and then
shuttled over to the grassland at Lower Chrome via the gate off Barren Road. We were back in the parking at the end of the
workday by 1:20 p.m.
I
met with Bob Folk at his home prior to the workday. We discussed his assistance in mowing the
restored grassland areas at Lower and Upper Chrome in lieu of payment for the
fields he leases at the preserve.He
also stopped by the grassland area when we were working to assess the area as
well. From the visit he feels as though
he will be able to mow the large western grasslands as well as Grassland #5
(not sure if this is the correct #) in the eastern section at Lower
Chrome. We
spent our time clearing the brush between Grassland #9 & #14 in our effort
to combine these two areas.Most of what
was cut was greenbriar but some small trees were lopped/cut with the stumps
sprayed with herbicide. Only 5 oz. of
herbicide was needed. There is some
thick brush (wall of greenbriar), ½ dozen small trees and one large cedar tree
left in this area.
Molly
and George Gress are scheduled to head back out to this area on Wednesday,
November 24th to finish clearing the area with a chainsaw and brush
mower as well as use a probe to determine soil depths throughout the area. There are a few issues we need to
discuss/consider before we initiate a spring mowing regime here:
There
are several tall stumps still left in this combined area that would need to be
cut to the ground before Bob Folk could mow the area this spring.
One
thing we need to consider/discuss is if we should scrape sections of this newly
created large area if the soil depths indicate the need to do so. If so, we would then hold off on cutting the
stumps to ground level in some areas.
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