Restoration work continues on the Tye River Mitigation Bank. Invasives Management work ongoing includes hand pulling, mowing, stem cutting, stump cuts followed up with injections, foliar treatments and spot treatment with herbicides. Our teams continue to prioritize the management activities by careful GPS tracking. Targeted species in this project include autumn olive, Japanese honeysuckle, aralia, multiflora rose, privet, wineberry, ailanthus, and Japanese barberry. Monitoring to date shows the persistent work yielding significant success in control of non-natives over much of the bank site.
Again, in February 2024, planting continued with the installation of more than 25 species of native trees and shrubs. The 2024 plantings (17,000+, native bare roots, live stakes, tubelings and container plants) were installed along 15 different creeks. Biodiversity within the hundreds of acres of riparian buffer in the headwaters of the Tye River has been augmented with many tens of thousands of native transplants over the past five years. Native vegetation is critical to minimizing infestation by invasive species, for maintaining habitats, and for ensuring stream bank stability within these buffer zones.
And, in May 2024, planting continued and tree rings were installed in 14 heavily planted areas to aid in viability of the new plantings and for monitoring plant health.
