We are passing the seasons of mowing. The mile-a-minute, a perniciously fast-growing annual vine, has been hit by frost and is finished for the year. So I've moved on to the next project: this is a good time of year to identify and pull Norway maples. Although we have no mature, seeding trees left at the preserve, there are some landscape trees in the neighborhood and each year I pull thousands of seedlings.
We're also doing some vine control, particularly of Oriental bittersweet.
