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

At the beginning of the year I did some more cutting and treating of the brush that had come up after the mulch/mowing Erik did in the fall of 2022.  I finished clearing out most of the resprouts and treated many of the first year biennial weeds (mullein and burdock).

I checked again for Wild Parsnip in the planted prairie and the sedge meadow below it and found no Parsnip at all.  (There’s still Parsnip in the area adjacent to Willow Bend and along the streams leading to the creek.)

1/9/2024

 

1/31/2024  This is where I cut and treated resprouting invasives.  It’s the spot where Erik mulch/mowed giant honeysuckles and buckthorns in the fall of 2022.  Since they weren’t treated, they all came back with fountains of resprouts.

 

2/6/2024  The mulch/mowed area

 

2/13/2024

 

2/25/2024  This is what the resprouts look like before I cut them.

 

2/26/2024

 

2/26/2024  Looking north-east – across the area where the pine stumps used to be.  Erik also mulch/mowed this area, but since most of the brush had already been cut and treated by hand, it didn’t have many resprouts.

 

3/3/2024

 

5/1/2024

 

5/1/2024  A patch of Big Leaved Aster

 

5/27/2024

 

7/23/2024

 

7/23/2024

 

7/23/2024

 

7/23/2024  Stiff Goldenrod, Rough Blazing Star, Black-eyed Susan and Yellow Coneflower in the planted prairie

 

7/23/2024  The area where I had cut and treated resprouts in the spring

 

7/23/2024

 

7/23/2024

 

8/21/2024

 

9/25/2024  Looking down through the restored savanna to Pine Point Prairie

 

9/27/2024  Drone photo with Big View Prairie at the top, looking through the savanna, Pine Point Prairie below, and wetland and Willow Bend below that.

 

12/2/2024

 

12/11/2024

 

12/20/2024