[To see photos and stories of this prairie in other years, go to the links on the main Indian Grass Point page.]

1/9/2013  Ridge on the top of Indian Grass Point

1/9/2013  Ridge – west-facing side

1/24/2013  This is the path up the hill behind the house, up to Indian Grass Point.  The photo is very deceiving – it looks fairly flat, but actually it’s a very steep hill up to the point.

2/11/2013  The point after a snowstorm

4/4/2013

4/24/2013  The front of the point is getting more open – I’ve cleared most of the lower half.

4/26/2013  View from the point

6/10/2013  Looking south toward the point

6/27/2013   White Camas and Harebells

6/27/2013  Harebells on the point

6/27/2013

9/28/2013  I decided to really work on the east-facing slope this fall.  I needed to be able to throw the cut brush down the hill, so I worked from the bottom, clearing a narrow space so I could throw things all the way down into the woods.

9/28/2013  Looking north from the stripe I cleared – lots of brush yet to cut.

9/28/2013  Looking south from the stripe I cleared – toward the point

11/14/2013  This is the same slope, after clearing out sumac, raspberries and prickly ash.  Now this slope is open all the way to the point.

11/19/2013  Looking the other way – north – before clearing

11/19/2013  After clearing – I’ve cleared more than half way back to the northern edge of the prairie.

10/13/2013  Another big clearing project that Mike and I did together – on top of the ridge above the point.  (This is the same view as the earlier photo – from June 10 – looking south toward the point.)  We decided we needed some ‘before’ photos.

10/13/2013  this is a similar view, after doing a day of cutting (Mike on the weedwacker, me making piles a spraying stumps.)  We liberated several big old oaks, and cleared away alot of brush.

10/26/2013  Same view after we removed the brush piles.  Now it looks like a savanna!

10/26/2013  Looking the other way – north – away from the point.  We haven’t done any clearing to the right of the path.

11/1/2013  This is looking north – before we began clearing in that direction.

11/14/2013  This is afterwards – we cleared all the way to the prairie opening that I’ve been calling Ragwort Opening.  Now it’s all one savanna area.

More views of the newly opened savanna

11/10/13

11/10/2013

11/20/2013  Mike standing with his tractor, and the brush pile we’ve built from this project

11/25/2013  Another ‘after’ photo – after cutting more brush at the south end of our new savanna area.  We hope to do a little more cutting up there this fall, but that depends on the weather.

12/1/2013  One last project before the snow – clearing out some of the brush between Ragwort opening and the path.

12/14/2013  That’s it for this year.  This picture shows the difference between the cleared and the uncleared sides of the path.

Here are two slide shows I did about these two projects.

This is the link to the savanna project.

This is the link to the project on the east-facing side of the point.