Before & After Photos
All photos by Victor von Salza
Area 1a - Planted January 2004
2003.05.21 before work started the area was pretty much covered by blackberries four to six feet high.
2003.08.02 after the June and July invasive removal events
2004.05.03 after January planting and May 3rd, 2004 invasive touch up event
2007.04.21 over thirty different kinds of natives are flourishing here.
This next set of photos covers/shows the central section of the panorama images above in more detail.
2003.05.21 before work began, and 2003.08.26 after invasives removed.
2004.09.29, the area was been planted 9 months earlier in January
2005.09.13 and 2006.04.12 Compare the diversity of plants shown here with the almost blackberry only photo above. Note that the tall stump standing on the right of the previous three photos has fallen and is laying across the creek in these two photos.
Area 1b - Planted January 2005
2004.04.04 before work started, except for ferns, most of what is green on the ground is english ivy
2004.11.25 after 11.20 erosion control event. The large mound in the foreground is the debris pile of the now dead ivy and other invasives that were removed from the area. Eventually this will be covered over and planted.
2007.04.24 because of what is now a large new tree in middle foreground had to step back over the creek for this and subsequent images in this series which still spans the same area horizontally. Even though this was taken from a slightly higher perspective you can still see that the debris pile has decomposed significantly and is now only about 1/3 its former height.
2007.06.30 plants have really leafed out since April photo above and Area 1b is looking about as dense as Area 1a did last year.
Area 2 - Planted Winter 2004
2003.05.01 before work started this area was covered by blackberries up to eight feet high, and two large patches of english ivy along the northern and western edge.
2004.11.24 after invasives were mashed and sprayed and area was planted
2007.04.24 two years 5 months since picture above
2007.07.02 a BES crew cleared out resprouts and tall grass, although difficult to see in this large area panorama, the plants that have survived in Area 2 have really filled out this year.