Today and Tomorrow: The Age of Restoration Dawns

The following consists of notes on the project for the Autumn Semester 2015.

October 10: Cleaning sections 1-4 of callery pear and honeysuckle. Decide to focus on these two species for the rest of the semester. Met Linda Hart of Green Club CAS.

October 25: Cleaning sectiona 5-8.

November 1: Cleaning out piles of brush with thorny vegetation. Complete sectioning of the site into 26 sections to pace work. Contracted out ENR Scholar Chas Parise to identify some of the trees on the site [a species list is soon to come].

November 18: Fawcett Center Floodplain Event. ENR Scholars freshmen came out en masse to clear honeysuckle from sections 1-9. Many larger plants come out, and many brush piles grow exponentially. Collaborate with Laura Fay of Friends of the Lower Olentangy Watershed to secure FLOW’s planting sheets and a bat box application. Discuss further collaboration for tools and plants in the spring.

November 15: Site survey for suitable bat, bee, and bird house locations. Inspecting possible pathways through the site. Begin the grant application process. Undergraduate Student Government Grant submitted in early December.

December: Contact with University about the placement of bird, bee, and bat houses. Laura Fay sends a map and planning begins for proposed sites.

This post summarizes the site’s records.

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