Layla Low · @nesmb
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Pink flowers of red currant (Ribes sanguineum). Native plants like these require constant control of #invasivespecies to thrive.
The grass and weeds in the lower right will have to be removed before they take over and smother the shrub.
#pnw #pnwrestore #invasivespecies
Layla Low · @nesmb
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Here’s some #salal, #mossyrocks, and #fern under the trunk of a #serviceberry
#pnwrestore #pnw #nature #Mosstodon #serviceberry #fern #mossyrocks #salal
Layla Low · @nesmb
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Part of today’s clearing project was to remove invasive hawthorn, blackberry, and rose from between these Oregon ash, leaving the Oregon grape and snowberry. This is about a 3-year growth of bramble. See reply for the after.
Layla Low · @nesmb
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Huge canes of #invasive #blackberry growing in the trunk of a decrepit Oregon ash. It got this bad because the decades-old, impenetrable #bramble was finally brushhogged last summer.
All cleaned up now. The #EmeraldAshBorer was found in Oregon last year, so who knows what is in store for the ash trees.
#pnwrestore #pnw #thicktrunktuesday #emeraldashborer #bramble #blackberry #invasive
Layla Low · @nesmb
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#pnwrestore #pnw #Mosstodon #WHITEOAK #lichen
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Layla Low · @nesmb
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Here’s hoping this majestic #willamettevalley #oregon white #oak can continue to survive invasive plants and insects, fire, ice storms, drought, unprecedented heat waves, and human disturbance for another couple hundred years. #nature #pnw #pnwrestore
Zoom in beneath the lowest branch to view invasive hawthorn needing hand removal.
#pnwrestore #pnw #nature #oak #oregon #willamettevalley