Volunteers tackle invasives in East Burke
A group of 15 people joined forces on a sunny, late July day to remove exotic invasive plants from the banks of the East Branch Passumpsic River in downtown East Burke. If you’ve visited RubyLee’s Ice Cream, East Burke Sports, or taken a dip in the river after biking at Kingdom Trails, you’ve probably seen the dense walls of vegetation along the river banks. What you may not have noticed is that this vegetation includes five invasive plant species – knotweed, shrub honeysuckle, common reed, glossy buckthorn, and burning bush – [Read More...]
