Tanoma AMD Wetlands Educational Site, October 6, 2024. The volunteer work crew recuperates after pulling invasive shrubs near the headwaters of Crooked Creek. One of the acid mine drainage mitigation ponds is on the left edge of the photograph. Front Row, from left to right: Dakota James, Ellen Yerger, Fatuma Salat. Back row, from left to right: Cindy Rogers, Samantha Ryan, Amaya Owens, Mason Carney, Mallory Smith, Yasdamy Bautista Pena.Tanoma AMD Wetlands Educational Site, October 6, 2024. Yasdamy Bautista Pena, Fatuma Salat, and Samantha Ryan pose with their tools for prying out Multiflora Rose and Honeysuckle bushes.Tanoma AMD Wetlands Educational Site, October 6, 2024. Dakota James and Ed Donley use Pullerbears to pull out the stems of a large privet thicket.Yellow Creek State Park, May 25, 2024. Volunteers pull periwinkle along Laurel Run Trail. We focused on an area that was partially invaded with periwinkle (Vinca major), but was still interspersed with native herbaceous plants. This will allow the native plants to fill in. You can see a native Jack-in-the-Pulpit in the photo foreground. This photo shows some of the volunteers at work, from left to right: Lucia Rakoci, Marti Higgins, Lisa Meadows, Karen Greene, Loren Greene, Ed Donley, and Ruth Frech. Photo by Barb Hauge.Blue Spruce Park, November 5, 2023. Cindy Rogers demonstrates a Pullerbear for removing shrubs.Blue Spruce Park, November 5, 2023. Plant Patrol volunteers pose with representatives, Paige Gandolfi and Donna Griffith, from Indiana County Endowment, who awarded a grant to Plant Patrol for equipment and supplies. Front row: Paige Gandolfi, Cindy Rogers, Marti Higgins, Ashley Haller, Lauren Ross, Ellen Yerger. Back row: Ruth Frech, Ed Donley, Barb Hauge, Steve Higgins, Ian Livingston, Carson Zadroga, Loren Greene, Sam Trout, Karen Greene, Donna Griffith.Pond Near Smicksburg, August 19, 2023. Volunteers venture out with their kayaks and canoes to pull water chestnut from the first reported infestation in Indiana County.Indiana YMCA, July 19, 2023. Volunteers learn to identify Tree-of-Heaven.Blue Spruce Park, September 18, 2022. A volunteer digs out a barberry shrub.Tanoma AMD Wetlands Educational Site, August 28, 2022. Two volunteers pull out a honeysuckle bush.Tanoma AMD Wetlands Educational Site, April 10, 2022. Most honeysuckle bushes can be removed by one or two people, but these young men decided to take on the challenge of removing a large well-established shrub. We usually cut these down instead of digging them out.
