pepperweed

Besides plover wardens, the refuge needs volunteers to staff the information desk, help with invasive vegetation control -- like pulling pepperweed and planting pitch pines and stuff, and to do various maintenance tasks on the Refuge.

Archive 2009-04-01 2009

Besides plover wardens, the refuge needs volunteers to staff the information desk, help with invasive vegetation control -- like pulling pepperweed and planting pitch pines and stuff, and to do various maintenance tasks on the Refuge.

museum piece 2009

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pepperweed pullers 2008

I stopped in at the Visitor Center during the pepperweed training two weeks ago -- not to attend the training but to umm use the facilities -- and happened to get a chance to see another anti-invasive plant measure, the purple loosestrife eating beetle.

pepperweed pullers 2008

I stopped in at the Visitor Center during the pepperweed training two weeks ago -- not to attend the training but to umm use the facilities -- and happened to get a chance to see another anti-invasive plant measure, the purple loosestrife eating beetle.

Archive 2008-06-01 2008

I keep forgetting to blog the observation that in the last two years the buzz around the refuge and the volunteer recruitment effort is much more focused on the pepperweed eradication project than on protecting piping plovers and least terns.

pepperweed pullers 2008

I keep forgetting to blog the observation that in the last two years the buzz around the refuge and the volunteer recruitment effort is much more focused on the pepperweed eradication project than on protecting piping plovers and least terns.

Archive 2008-06-01 2008

The whole Volunteer Appreciation Day thing was much more focused on pepperweed pullers and visitor center/gatehouse volunteers this year anyway.

Archive 2007-11-01 2007

The whole Volunteer Appreciation Day thing was much more focused on pepperweed pullers and visitor center/gatehouse volunteers this year anyway.

cute 2007

If tamarisk trees are killed off by the beetles, newer weedy arrivals-like Russian knapweed, Russian olive and pepperweed-could hammer the water supply even more.

Scientific American 2009