#pnwrestore — Public Fediverse posts

Pink flowers of red currant (Ribes sanguineum). Native plants like these require constant control of #invasivespecies to thrive.

The grass and weeds in the lower right will have to be removed before they take over and smother the shrub.

#pnwrestore #pnw

Here’s some #salal, #mossyrocks, and #fern under the trunk of a #serviceberry

#Mosstodon #nature #pnw #pnwrestore

Part of today’s clearing project was to remove invasive hawthorn, blackberry, and rose from between these Oregon ash, leaving the Oregon grape and snowberry. This is about a 3-year growth of bramble. See reply for the after.

#pnw #pnwrestore #invasive

Huge canes of #invasive #blackberry growing in the trunk of a decrepit Oregon ash. It got this bad because the decades-old, impenetrable #bramble was finally brushhogged last summer.

All cleaned up now. The #EmeraldAshBorer was found in Oregon last year, so who knows what is in store for the ash trees.

#thicktrunktuesday #pnw #pnwrestore

Is this #lichen or more moss on this #WhiteOak trunk?

#mosstodon #pnw #pnwrestore

#WillametteValley #WhiteOak #thicktrunktuesday #pnw #pnwrestore
#Mosstodon

Here’s hoping this majestic #willamettevalley #oregon white #oak can continue to survive invasive plants and insects, fire, ice storms, drought, unprecedented heat waves, and human disturbance for another couple hundred years. #nature #pnw #pnwrestore

Zoom in beneath the lowest branch to view invasive hawthorn needing hand removal.