Stewards of Kleinstuck

We had a nice turnout for the frog walk on Friday night withabout a dozen adults and 8-10 kids (they kept moving and were hard to count). Thanks Cari for helping me out with the laminated frog cards – they werea big hit.  The dry weather made the frogs a bit quiet and the peepers andchorus frogs didn’t start singing until dusk was underway at 9:00.  Nextyear let’s remember to do this a bit earlier to take advantage of it notbeing light so late.  Oh, and make it rain in the afternoon beforehand.

The flower walk was soggy and not well attended.  Just fourof us poking around looking at the plants.

After acknowledging our insanity, Paul joined Jeff and I inleading another fellow and a dad with three boys out to do some garlic mustardmop up in sections 5A & 5C.  Aside from a few spots of privet, those areasare looking pretty good.  Lots of bloodroot, trout lily, may apples, cutleaf toothwort,and a handful of spring beauties.  The transplants looked happy to have therain and the trillium have survived their first week in the Deer Salad Bowl(a.k.a. Kleinstuck Preserve).

-Nate