Oakhurst Restoration Workdays

2023-24 Winter Brush Control

The priority for 2023/24 season is to revisit all workzones where brush work has been performed and remove any reprouts or new growth. The map below shows the full scope of work; the red diagonal lines are workzones requiring follow up resprout control, while the blue are new or incomplete areas.

Once follow up work is underway, the workzone will change color based on the following conditions

Yellow will indicate work has started
Light green will indicate there are no large shrubs or trees (requiring a saw to cut)
Medium green will indicate all there is no brush taller than waist height.
Dark green will indicate there is no brush, or area has been swept through with a brushsaw

2023/24 Review

Cut the autumn olive in the field and a larger honeysuckle by the cottonwoods. To much posion ivy to deal with rest.
Returned to remove Euonymus and the larger resprouts.
To Do Treat smaller buckthorn.
To Do Possibly cut poison ivy with brushsaw

Conducted a sweep through the workzone, removing smaller trees (ash, walnut, elm) in favor of prairie. Small buckthorn cut near the sumacs, along with multiflora rose.
Cut a few buckthorn along trail amisted the dogwood.
To Do: Move brush to a nearby brush pile

Cut and treated smaller shrubs and trees, including walnut, autumn olive, callery pear, elm.
To Do: Cut dogwoods with brushsaw for easy access to teasel

Cut a couple dozen small callery pears across the field, along with the larger siberian elm and eastern red cedar.
To Do: Move cut brush to a nearby brush pile

Began cutting the resprouted honeysuckle underneath the mulberrry tree.
To Do: Continue work

Cut the resprouts underneath the boxelders
To Do: Finish cutting under the pin oak
To Do: Clear the callery pear and ash from the field.

Cut more honeysuckle amongst the dogwoods
To Do: Cut the large honeysuckle shrubs (need chainsaw)
To Do: Burn current brush
To Do: Cut willow with brushsaw

First sweep of area cutting the multflora rose.
Returned to cut brush amidst the dogwood and near the road
To Do: Finish cutting smaller honeysuckles

Cut smaller honeysuckle along with larger missed buckthorn.
To Do: Move remaining brush

Cleared brush underneath the homelocust
To Do: Clear brush underneath the cedars

Continued work clearing the larger buchthorn
To Do: Cut all the remaining large shrubs
To Do: Fell callery pear with chainsaw
To Do: Continue burning the brush