Author Archives: Grassland Restoration Network blog

This early spring has us doing prescribed fire and the winter work of mowing brush.  Below is a before and after of some brush mowing I did yesterday.  The light brush is invasive bush honeysuckle thickets, with hundreds of waist … Continue reading →

Save the Date! Grassland Restoration Network Workshop July 11-12, 2017 Join us at Konza Prairie Biological Station in Manhattan, KS for overview and field presentations on long-term plot and watershed-level studies in grassland ecology. This year’s workshop will focus how … Continue reading →

My comments on mowing honeysuckle are similar to fire.  You can’t kill honeysuckle roots by mowing it.  But you can reduce a huge shrub to a tiny re-sprouting shrub that can then be easily treated with herbicide. Mowing down the … Continue reading →

I have used foliar application on honeysuckle in the following manner.  On a fire break in a ruderal area with no native plants I had mowed down all sorts and sizes of honeysuckle and other woody plants.  The fire break … Continue reading →

Above is the cover and title from a management note we published in Ecological Restoration.  That was a lot of work. Some tips to apply basal bark herbicide: Be careful applying these mixes in quality vegetation areas.  It is not … Continue reading →

I sometime hear colleagues say basal bark on invasive honeysuckle “sort of” works.  I find basal bark with Garlon4 kills nearly all of the time. Note in the photo below the blue tree marking paint I applied to the stem. … Continue reading →