• Home
  • Educational Resources
    • BEAN Sprouts
    • Elementary
    • Secondary
    • Ressources Francaises
  • Members
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Home
  • Educational Resources
    • BEAN Sprouts
    • Elementary
    • Secondary
    • Ressources Francaises
  • Members
  • Blog
  • Contact

Volunteer Powered Invasive Species Management

1/10/2020

0 Comments

 
By: Ecospark
Over the past two years EcoSpark partnered with the City of Toronto’s
Community Stewardship Program (CSP) and Humber College’s Professor Lynn Short to see how well volunteers could tackle the invasive grass Phragmites australis (AKA common reed, or phragmites). Using Short’s manual removal technique​- spading - volunteers removed phragmites with minimal disturbance to the surrounding environment. We compared cutting above the soil, spading once in a season, spading twice in a season, and doing nothing. We also documented the amount of phragmites removed by volunteers, and used surveys to gauge how volunteers felt about their contributions, and whether or not they learned anything. Check out the full report here. 


Read More
0 Comments

    Author

    Write something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview.

    Archives

    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    January 2022
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    June 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    September 2020
    August 2020
    June 2020
    April 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019

    Categories

    All
    Invasive Species
    Resources

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.