The restoration is looking good as a whole, there are problematic areas that always need tending to but all in all I think it's going well.
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| In a nearly always flooded landscape Cypress seedling seemingly take forever to get above the shrub layer. Every winter I wonder if any have survived, and without leaves they were nearly impossible to find, but in Spring there are always more than I expected and my nervousness lets up. In this 45' plot I can easily identify 15 trees at a good spacing. This is going to be a beautiful spot........ (in 100 years!). You are welcome kids. |
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| Each season there is more abundance and diversity in the Prairie plots, Indigo and False Indigo are amongst the first to flower and stand out sharply. |
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| Tallow trees all gone, now you can more easily see the transplanted Iris and Cypress that circle the flooded wooded potholes. |
