Join a team of park volunteers at Warren Dunes as they remove invasive plants, including honeysuckles. Contact Chuck Bueter to receive announcements, such as the typical text message on Thursday, February 9, 2023, which announced an upcoming Stewardship opportunity:
Stewardship will be Saturday from 10 am-noon at Warren Dunes State Park. We will cut invasive bushes and vines. Meet at the first roadside parking lot along the road to the beach. If you have a pair of work gloves please bring them.
Many have helped over the years. Here are excerpts from the January 14 hunting party.
Added Feb. 17, 2023:
In response to an inquiry about what chemicals are used, a Natural Resource Steward
from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources Parks & Recreation Division, Stewardship Unit wrote:
The chemical we use in upland (dry) sites is triclopyr. We create a 50/50 mixture of triclopyr (61.6% active ingredient in concentrate) and a carrier oil. The brand name of the chemical we are currently using is Element 4 and the oil is Elite premier blue. It doesn’t take much; you just treat the stump after cutting down the rest of the shrub. On my biggest workdays we might use about 15 oz of the 50/50 mixture. I’d say in two hours one person only uses ½ an ounce, this goes up when people are using the saws cutting large shrubs quickly.
The eye dropper bottles that we use at Warren Dunes are a Wayne special. I think he sources them from the company he orders supplies for his chemistry lab. At other locations I use applicators called Buckthorn Blasters , we use them for all our stump cut treatments not just buckthorn. If you purchase this applicator, it is an empty bottle. The label on it says to use a 20% glyphosate (Roundup) mixture. We only use glyphosate in wet areas, so the label can cause some confusion. The buckthorn blaster’s are just like bingo dauber’s, you might be able to purchase those for a lower price.
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