PLANT POLICE UPDATE

THE NEW ENEMY

       This updates the post of Wednesday February 2nd when we profiled the "plant police," those volunteers who work zealously to rid the 430 acre Fiscalini Ranch Preserve in Cambria of invasive plants.  The new target is thistle, which seems to be rampant after our wet winter.

 It can be a pernicious resident on the ranch.
In the frame below one of the targeted plants has survived the attempt to
uproot it, the others are dry,

 its bloom, a defiance

and in time it will dry and spread seed over a wide expanse.

This year's crop of of thistle seems formidable, long time residents say they can't recall such an "invasion" so the battle will carry on.

Stay tuned.

See you down the trail