Rob did his Eagle Project on July 5 & 6 at the Great Plains Nature Center. His project was to remove an invasive plant called bush Honeysuckle. He had a great turnout and Rob did a great job of leading the project. In the end Rob logged more than 150 service hours between all of the helpers.
Rob buy one of the plants that has been pulled out. The roots weren't too deep so for most of the plants, shovels worked great!
An example of the bush Honeysuckle that hasn't been removed yet!
Here is a picture of the poison ivy. Unfortunately, there was poison ivy everywhere! Rob & Mark both got quite a bit of poison ivy, especially on their arms. I wore shorts the first day and Mark wasn't too impressed with my choice of attire! However, I didn't get in the plants much because my job was to be the photographer! However, I did manage to get a tiny bit of poison ivy on the back of my legs.
A few of the plants that have been pulled with a good picture of their roots!
Maddie & Reagan's job was to sit by the entrance and check people in and out and tell them where to go. (Morgan wasn't there because she was at EFY.)
Michelle, Rob & Gary working. Gary is using a special tool that the nature center had. The tool worked good on the plants that were especially large!
Michelle and Rob with the big plant that Gary just got through removing!
A picture of alot of people working. Jacob is on the lower right. He came both days with his family and worked the entire time! He did such a great job!
Oliver packs one of the bushes down to the pile!
Mark Elzinga came both days for the entire time. He got there the same time as me the first day and he beat me there the second day. (I was on time both days!!)
A picture of a large pile of the bush honeysuckle that has been removed!
Jay, Chandler, Oliver, Samuel, & Seth having a discussion at the end of the first day!
Leaving on the first day!
A picture taken of an area after the bush honeysuckle had been removed. It is amazing how much different it looked!
Mark
Adam, Chandler, Connor, Samuel, Rob, Set and Russ having a discussion.
Rob, carrying a weed to the pile.
Camron removing some of the bush honeysuckle!
Will, Jeremiah, Samuel and John helping with the project!
A picture of one of the piles of the weed after we were done!
I left right before the end of the second day because I had to get Maddie to her volleyball game. There were lots of other people that helped that I didn't get pictures of. I also took lots more pictures, but I just wanted to post a sampling of them!
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