AmeriCorps team tackles invasives, projects at Mishawaka Res and parks
In their first week, seven AmeriCorps members from around the country pulled and chopped down an estimated 8,000 invasive plants at The Mishawaka R...
In their first week, seven AmeriCorps members from around the country pulled and chopped down an estimated 8,000 invasive plants at The Mishawaka Res nature reserve. 'It was almost like we clear-cut the underbrush,' team leader Naomi Brown of Ohio says of the honeysuckle and bittersweet that they focused on in one part of the woods. It shows how thick — and what a headache — such invasive species have been for several years at the only free, public woods in the city of Mishawaka, with two miles of trails, a creek where steelhead visit and cabins and youth camp sites.