Over the past two weeks, volunteers lead by Nadene Morning as well as American Youthworks E-Corps have been removing more invasive (non-native) trees on Red Bud Isle. As a result, over 95 percent of the invasives have now been removed, but the amount of brush piled up along the trails was huge. Thanks to a few signs encouraging park users to carry a branch or trunk back to the parking lot, all brush – save five pickup truck loads – was hauled back into the big pile shown here. The Parks Forestry Crews will pick the piles up shortly for transformation into mulch. Thanks to all Red Bud Isle visitors who lifted the (their limbs) and branches and trunks….
