Ecological Restoration Services 

The late-April morning air is cold but at least the ground is free from snow, I think, as I walk briskly along a mowed path traversing through a valley bottom prairie. Winter has been slow to let go, and a couple of April snow storms have delayed my best intentions of getting an early start on spring garlic mustard control efforts. Bits of green are visible among the cool-season grass blades in the path, but the neighboring bleached prairie grasses and the shriveled, dried pr

The thick, muggy air is stifling, but the sound of cold running water brings soothing thoughts of an oasis as I inch along a wooded stream corridor. I’m looking for the invasive species garlic mustard, honeysuckle, Japanese hedge parsley and poison hemlock hidden among the thick carpet of native spring flora. “What the heck is this?” I ask myself. “It looks like bird wing emerging from the ground.” I move closer, and realize it’s an Eastern wild turkey wing sticking up in the