A Prescribed Prairie Burn was performed at Lapham Peak on Nov 2 and 17. About 55 acres on the west side of the Park, and about 2-3 acres on the east side of the park were successfully burned. The areas outlined in red on the right were the units involved. […]
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We’ve been monitoring the growth of some very nasty, invasive, thorny, Black Locust trees along the Paul Sandgren Recreational Trail on the far west side of the park, along Cushing Road. This October (2020), volunteers removed as much of this as they could find, and they will continue to monitor
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Ornamental grasses, including non-native phragmites (also called common reed), pampas grass, miscanthus grass (also called maiden grass) can become a huge issue for our State Parks. Each year, volunteers and DNR rangers try to address various invasive plants (such as buckthorn, honeysuckle, black locust, Japanese barberry, etc) and now ornamental
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2020 has been an awful year for garlic mustard in SE Wisconsin (maybe all over). Within Lapham Peak, we try to pull the Garlic Mustard (in selected various locations) when it’s flowering, and at times we also spray some of it with herbicides. Most of this work is headed up
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