PATC - North Chapter

......stewards of the Appalachian Trail

Provided by Pete Brown, PATC North District Manager & Marion Orlousky, ATC - Mid Atlantic Region

Yes, we can 'Weed 'Em & Reap' .....in fact, many invasive plants/weeds were introduced by European settlers for use as food, medicinal purposes and/or to prevent erosion.    Garlic mustard is one of these.....

.....1st recorded in Long Island around 1868.   It was us...

Contributed by  Dewey Clark, PATCNorth Overseer & PATC Invasive Plant Committee Chair

NEEDED:    Volunteers to hike trails, identify & map invasive plants

WHERE:        AT; Shenandoah; National Parks in/around DC; PA - Michaux & Caledonia; MD - State Trails

Early summer is when the mile-a-minute & the stilt grass start to get their momentum.  The Yankee Clippers spent Saturday, June 7th with their bushhogs putting a damper on the spring growth along the AT just south of Pine Grove station.   

Stilt grass has the ability to grow on just about anything due to the shallow roots, as seen on the photo with stilt ...