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Spring beauty, spring clean up and biological pollution

By Bill Kleiman Spring beauty are one of the early wildflowers to come up in our oak woods. They are crazy beautiful making us thankful for spring.  Spring cleaning. Above is old junk dumped in a ditch that we are … Continue reading

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Finesse vs. Brute Force in Invasive Plant Management

Part 2 – Soil Residual Effects of Herbicides By: Julianne Mason, Restoration Program Coordinator, Forest Preserve District of Will County To preserve or restore native plant diversity and community integrity, it’s often necessary to apply herbicides to kill invasive plants.  … Continue reading

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Monitoring vegetation with GIS Field Maps

By Bill Kleiman Arc GIS Field Maps, known previously as Collector, is a powerful phone app. The app is free, but you do need a GIS online program to run it, which typically means you need your employer to support … Continue reading

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