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SUNRISE AT DEATH VALLEY-Photo by Tom Cochrun
Showing posts with label wet winter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wet winter. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

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