Free the baby oaks!

The Americorps NCCC crew has been hard at work these last few weeks, and no synonym of the word miraculous would be applicable to the amount of work that has been done. We've been systematically going into the degraded prairie and savanna remnants on bluffs above Long Creek and removing Eastern redcedar, honey locust, prickly ash, multiflora rose, and honeysuckle.

Here's an image of a little baby bur oak tree (red arrow) on the side of a prairie remnant that has been completely outcompeted by a honey locust (black arrow), which is being cut down.

In the next picture, Brooke, the Americorps NCCC crew leader, is standing with the baby oak, now bathed in sunshine!

The crew has all headed home for Thanksgiving, but we'll be back at it next week!