Join Roscoe Sportsmen’s Club members and other volunteers to remove non-native invasive brush from the woods. Tasks may vary from month to month, but it’s all in an effort to make a healthier wildlife habitat at Silver Creek Woods Preserve. This preserve...
By Alan Branhagen, Executive Director, Natural Land Institute Two ornamental trees have been added to the Illinois Noxious Weed List: Callery Pear (Pyrus calleryana) and Amur Corktree (Phellodendron amurense). I’ll admit, I specified planting Callery Pears way back...
Callery Pear. “Remove it if you have it” says our new Ex. Dir., Alan Branhagen. He also said you will save a lot of time and money in the future if you just remove it now. This tree has been widely used in landscaping and has now become very invasive in southern and...
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