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Serps Stewardship Day Report Goat Hill 12/30/15
Participants:
Anna Hull, Chris Hull, Nora Hull, Henry Whitesel, Chris Hoess, Tracy Raymond,
Bill Whittaker, Kent Wagner, Mike Waltz, Patsy Koenig; an excellent turnout of
10 people. Full report: We met at 10:00 at the Red Pump Road Parking Lot and were out of the woods by around 2 pm. We accessed the state forest across Becky Murray’s farm and walked down to clearing 89. There we marked stumps with red flags, cleared dirt and rocks from around the stumps and cut them down to ground level. All the stumps in clearing 89 were marked. About half were cut down to ground lever. Stumps in clearings 49 and 42 were also marked with red flags. The purpose of cutting stumps down to ground level is to minimize the potential for damaging the Jim Herr’s tractor mounted bush hog when he mows this spring. This is part of our program to reduce the density of green briar in our serpentine clearings. The green briar chokes out the warm season grasses we are trying to preserve in clearings where serpentine bed rock is exposed or is very near the surface; especially during wet summers like we have experienced during the last 3 years. Time on task: 40 hours. If travel time is included that total rises to 47 hours. Submitted Henry Whitesel |