Special invasive plant removal workdays:
In addition to the trail maintenance, we still want to continue work on removing invasive plants along the MST and the Eno River. Some of you helped out on the planting of native trees recently. Thank you so much for that. The other side of planting natives is to remove invasives to give the natives a chance.

Invasive workday 1
If any of you are available and want to help out, I will be out doing some invasive removal, this Sunday February 23^rd 9AM, meeting just past 5106 Laurel Ridge Road in Durham. Any of you want to join that would be great! We will be primarily removing thorny olive and some privet with weed wrenches, and weather permitting cutting and poisoning the larger plants. This is a location where generally there is no parking allowed, but we have special permission to park there on this one day. Tools will be provided. RSVP to fred.dietrich@duke.edu.

This is an interesting historic site, part of the fish dam road, currently overgrown with bamboo and other invasive plants.

Invasive workday 2
Saturday March 1^st 9AM meeting at River Forest Park, 1000 Windermere Drive in Durham, to remove invasive privet. This is an area where we removed a lot of privet last year, but there is some we missed and privet growing up from roots or seeds. Removing invasives is generally a multi-year task. RSVP to fred.dietrich@duke.edu