2020 Field Crew Field Work Report

2020 Field Crew Field Work Summary

The field crew helped complete and maintain several projects at MPG North this season.

We’ve sprayed leafy spurge in many of the same areas for over a decade.

We revisited most planted trees and repaired or removed their exclosures.

We erected 1.5 miles of buck and rail fence this year.

We weed whacked several tree planting sites, knapweed invasions, and old sage thinning projects from years past.

We planted staff-propagated forbs and shrubs into the seed orchard and beyond.

We cut and planted a few thousand willows into the North Floodplain.

We laid out weed fabric in preparation for next year’s tree plantings.

Woodchips are great for weed suppression, moisture retention, and soil structure.

We conducted a few small prescribed burns in sagebrush and in areas that had accumulated old dense vegetation.

The Experimental Maintenance team kept the study plots and seed orchard weed-free for most of the year