Peregrines volunteers, heads down working on removing one of the LAST patches of buckthorn at Somme, a site where a stewardship community has been doing restoration work for almost 40 years (or more?!) 😭
(Look bottom left to see a shadow of me holding a smartphone for the pic. Classic.)

Remnant woodland burns
Toasted mushrooms, cute sedges
Tough white oaks grateful

Thank you for reading my post-prescribed burn haiku 🙏

Another beautiful autumnal Sunday at Superior Street Prairie, just after the first snow of the season. Stewards can be seen here walking a fire break put in for an upcoming Rx burn, while discussing management of encroaching aspen and black locust trees and admiring showy goldenrod seed heads 🤩