Saturday, October 11—Invasive Plant and Tree Identification

[Richard]

Paddlers need to be on the lookout as well.
Saturday, October 11—Invasive Plant and Tree Identification

Mark Depoy of the National Park Service has asked the hikers of the Ozark Society to help find the locations of non-native plants and trees in the Buffalo National River area so that the park service can remove them. The plan would be that when we are hiking and find the plant or tree, a GPS reading would be taken and we would give that information to Mark. We will meet at the Elk Information Center in Ponca from 10:00 a.m. until noon for training and then go on some of the trails around Ponca for field work. GPSers bring your GPS so that we can coordinate the settings to use. Mark tells me that the Forest Service would also be interested in this information from our hikes in the National Forests. Meet at Root School at 8:00 a.m. in Fayetteville or at the Elk Information Center at 10:00 a.m. Call Bob Cross at (479) 587-8757 for information.