[To see stories and photos from other years, see the links on the main Wetland page.]

3/19/2007  The beaver lake

4/22/2007  Flooded Beaver lake

4/22/2007  Beaver lake

6/16/2007  An especially thick stand of Wild Parsnip.  The white flowers in the background are Cow Parsnip – a native plant that’s much more well behaved.

6/28/2007  Mike mowing Parsnip Meadow again.  It’s more effective to pull or cut parsnip by hand, but this area will have to wait until I have the parsnip under control in the rest of the wetland.  There’s much too much to pull it all by hand right now.

7/5/2007  The unmowed area – lots of Common Milkweed.

7/6/2007  East of the driveway – Wild Parsnip is invading this part of the creek too.

7/14/2007  Giant Swallowtail on Swamp Milkweed

7/15/2007  The unmowed part where I’ve been weeding Wild Parsnip by hand.

7/16/2007  More Wild Parsnip

7/26/2007   Blue Vervain

8/5/2007  Joe Pye Weed, Tall Sunflower and Black Bulrush

12/8/2007  We had the mowed part of Parsnip Meadow sprayed with glyphosate at the end of the summer, and then I planted it in December.

12/8/2007  Planting Parsnip Meadow