Time: 900-11:00 am
Place: Meet at the Pleasant Valley Preserve parking lot, Macintosh Rd., Lyme CT
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
Join us for a work party as part of habitat management to encourage healthy native plants in a small meadow. Learn about meadow management and how to identify invasive and native plants .We will focus on removing woody invasive species from the field edges. We will be working on winged euonymous (aka burning bush), autumn olive and barberry, and creating brush piles from the material that will be cut. The effort will benefit native woody shrubs and trees, including highbush blueberry, spicebush, ironwood and more.
Tools needed for the morning will be lopping shears, hand pruners, hand saws, and chain saws. Please bring water and work gloves and be sure to wear long sleeves and long pants. Snacks will be provided.
Please Register:
mrice@tnc.org Martha Rice, Volunteer Coordinator for The Nature Conservancy
Or
openspace@townlyme.org Wendy Hill, Town of Lyme Open Space Coordinator
Sponsored by the Town of Lyme, The Nature Conservancy, and the Lyme Land Trust.
Directions:
From the north, travel Route 82 to Route 156; take Route 156 south for 2 miles to right on MacIntosh Road; travel 0.25 mile on MacIntosh Road, and parking for the preserve will be on the right.
From the south, in Old Lyme, take exit 70 off of I-95. From the intersection of Route 1 and Route 156, travel north on Route 156 approximately 6 miles, and take a left onto MacIntosh Road; travel 0.25 mile on MacIntosh Road, and parking for the preserve will be on the right.
