February 2012 – The Straw Idea Worked

Here’s what the “knotweed” area of the slope looked like, toward the end of winter, 2012.

The phragmites, having been treated the autumn prior, were dead, and now it was our task to remove their huge biomass. The H.S. football players came over to help us cut the dead phragmites stalks, then drag them onto a brush pile for later burning.

photo of February 2012 slope