Help Control Garlic Mustard

Garlic Mustard Control

Garlic mustard control is an ongoiong process in the Lakeshore Nature Preserve. Please help us control Garlic Mustard:

To learn about the progress and plans in the ongoing process of garlic mustard control, see:

• Garlic Mustard Season 2008
• Garlic Mustard Season 2009
  
  

2008 Pull-A-Thon

On May 19 twenty-six adults and three children pulled 40 thirty-gallon bags of Garlic Mustard during the two hour Pull-A-Thon, removing millions of future seeds from the Preserve.  Nine energetic people pulled 10 bags from Bill’s Woods/Picnic Point Base in 14 hours.  Seventeen adults and three children pulled 30 bags from Eastern Big Woods in 38 hours.

The pullers pulled significantly less than the 103 bags collected last year because there was less Garlic Mustard.  The workers spent more time looking and less time pulling and pulled less Garlic Mustard in the same amount of time.  In fact, the area of Frautschi Point pulled last year had too little Garlic Mustard to be considered for the Pull-A-Thon.  In 2008 in Eastern Big Woods only 36 bags were pulled.  In 2007 98.2 bags (most of them after the Pull-A-Thon) were pulled.

The Pull-A-Thon would not have been possible without all our volunteers, including our team leaders, Cathie Bruner, Glenda Denniston, Tom Helgeson, Hui Jung Kim, Roma Lenehan, and Susan Slapnick, our sign-up volunteers, Harriet Riley and Marcia Schmidt, our driver, Lisa Munro, and our Garlic Mustard judge, Kris Helgeson.  Thank you all.

Fifty-two generous donors gave $2,205, pledging money for each bag of Garlic Mustard collected, the highest amount raised by the event.  These donations go directly to invasive species management at the Preserve.

The 2007 Preserve Pull-A-Thon was featured in the February 2008 Plants out of Place, the newsletter of the Invasive Plants Association of Wisconsin, or IPAW, posted on the IPAW website, www.ipaw.org.

• 2008 Pull-A-Thon Gallery of Photos

The 2007 Garlic Mustard Pull-A-Thon

The 2007 Garlic Mustard Pull-A-Thon was a great success, involving 36 volunteers who spent two hours each. One hundred and three bags of garlic mustard were removed by these energetic volunteers. Generous donors pledged and donated money per bag pulled, raising $1,480.

Setting up for the garlic mustard pull	Pulling garlic mustard
Pulling garlic mustard	General Services Librarian volunteers

For more information on the 2007 Garlic Mustard Pull-A-Thon, see:

Garlic mustard volunteers are always needed. Contact Preserve Field Manager Cathie Bruner at cbruner@fpm.wisc.edu or Roma Lenehan at rlenehan@charter.net for more information .