[To see photos and stories of this prairie in other years, go to the links on the main Hidden Oaks Point page.] The prairie has much less sumac than it used to, and not many of the aspen sprouts that I cut and treated are coming back.  There are many more clumps of Prairie Dropseed.  […]

[To see photos and stories of this prairie in other years, go to the links on the main Hidden Oaks Point page.] We’re slowly expanding the open area of the prairie point, and I’m continuing to maintain the south-facing slope that the folks from Kule Region Forestry cleared in 2017. In early April I cut […]

[To see photos and stories of this prairie in other years, go to the links on the main Hidden Oaks Point page.] I did two small projects here this year.  I went back across the open prairie area and cut and treated small sumacs that had come up after my big cutting and treating project […]

[To see photos and stories of this prairie in other years, go to the links on the main Hidden Oaks Point page.] I did two small projects here this year. I cut and treated invasives and small brush in a strip just below the dry prairie on the east facing hill, leading down into the […]

[To see photos and stories of this prairie in other years, go to the links on the main Hidden Oaks Point page.] We didn’t do any new projects here this year.  Mike mowed the top of the prairie and the savanna in the spring, but otherwise we just watched things grow. 3/29/2019   3/29/2019   […]

[To see photos and stories of this prairie in other years, go to the links on the main Hidden Oaks Point page.] We did two projects here this year.  Mike cut (with a weed whacker) the small sumacs on the main part of the bluff prairie.  That should slow them down a little.  We should […]

[To see photos and stories of this prairie in other years, go to the links on the main Hidden Oaks Point page.] This year, for the first time, we hired some folks to do some work for us.  We asked them to start with clearing Hidden Oaks Hillside – the southwest facing hillside on Hidden […]

[To see photos and stories of this prairie in other years, go to the links on the main Hidden Oaks Point page.] This year I did a little clearing around the edges of the bluff prairie, and cut brush and pulled weeds in the meadow. The biggest change we made was to move the bench […]

[To see photos and stories of this prairie in other years, go to the links on the main Hidden Oaks Point page.] For the first time, I introduced a few new plants into the remnants.  I got seedlings of some rare prairie species from a friend, and decided that the best place for them would […]

Hidden Oaks Point is a long flat point with dry prairie at the southern end, and a small mesic remnant at the north end.  When we first explored it in 2000, the area between these two prairies had grown into a thick brushy woods with old, open-grown oaks around the edges. This is the story […]