Big View Prairie – 2016

[To see photos and stories of this prairie in other years, go to the links on the main Big View Prairie page.]

I worked a bit at the top of the prairie this year – girdling the big birch at the top edge, and clearing out honeysuckle and other brush from around it.  I also cut and removed all the Common Burdock in the woods between Big View Prairie and Western Prairie.

This is the rocky slope below the prairie.  Someday I hope to clear most of the trees out of here so it can return to being savanna.

2/7/2016

 

2/7/2016

 

2/7/2016

 

2/7/2016

 

2/7/2016

 

2/7/2016  This is the savanna area at the very top of the point.  We mowed it a few years ago, and it’s recovering.

 

2/16/2016

 

2/16/2016

 

2/19/2016

 

5/3/2016  Big View Savanna

 

5/3/2016

 

5/3/2016

 

5/3/2016

 

5/3/2016

 

8/23/2016