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Japanese Knotweed Wars Continue May 16 and May 20

. Weston’s Conservation Department continues its educational and hands-on Invasive Plant series with Japanese knotweed today, Tuesday, May 16, and Saturday, May 20 from 10 am to 12 pm. If you are not familiar with Japanese knotweed, you actually are…its beautiful and very very invasive very bad self is all over Weston. The Owl tries not to be judge-y about

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WFTA/Conservation Volunteer Opportunity at Woodland Conservation Land Sat Sept 17

Join the Weston Forest & Trail Association and Weston Conservation for this month’s Stewardship Saturday as they continue the Hundred Years War against Japanese knotweed in our fair town. After a spring attack on the knotweed infiltrators at Dickson Ring and Jericho Forest, the Conservation Department and WFTA are taking on a new phalanx at the Woodland central Weston location.

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Feeling Crabby? Help Annihilate Japanese Knotweed on June 11

Join Weston Conservation Staff and Weston Forest & Trail Association volunteers for Japanese Knotweed cutting at the Dickson Riding Ring at Jericho Town Forest on Saturday, June 11 from 10 am-12 pm. Not only will you get to pull out, cut, massacrate, stomp and generally annihilate this pretty and yet terrible invasive, but you will learn actually valuable things that you

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Town Center Gets New Trees and a Watering Trough Refill

Yesterday (and the day before), the Owl took a little flap around the Town Green. While Monday evening’s visit was a little upsetting–the planting of Japanese knotweed is alternately shocking and hilarious–Tuesday afternoon’s walk was a bit more successful because TREES. According to Lori Hess, Chair of the Tree Advisory Group and Planning Board member-elect, forty new trees are in

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Town Center Project Facing a New and Tenacious Enemy: Japanese Knotweed

On a sunny day stroll around the soon-to-be-done (?) Town Center Improvement Project, the Owl noted tiny sprouts of Japanese knotweed coming up in the “hell strips” — the small dirt-covered areas between road and sidewalk–and even in Knox Park. Wherever this fill came from, it has brought a major invader that will be difficult to eradicate. For those not

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