Professional Invasive Plant Management Underway

Professional Invasive Plant Management Getting Underway

Weather permitting, the town’s contractor for invasive plant management, Ecological Land Management , will begin managing invasive plants on town owned land as soon as this weekend and work under this contract will continue through June 2024. This important work was funded at Spring 2023 town meeting and permitted by the West Newbury Conservation Commission, the state’s Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program, and MA DEP over the summer. The work focuses on managing phragmites and woody invasives on three parcels of land – the Cherry Hill Conservation Land, the field at the corner of Middle Street & Indian Hill Street, and along the Riverbend & Tupelo Trails.

To facilitate the treatment of these areas we kindly ask that you do not remove any of the pink or orange flagging hung at these areas and that you stay on the trails to avoid contact with any treated plants.

If you’d like to learn more about why these parcels are being managed, how they are being managed, the invasive plants being managed and ways to get involved with the town’s invasive plant management activities or how to manage invasive plants on your own land click here.

If you have questions, please contact Michelle Greene, Conservation Agent, at 978-363-1100 x126 or by email at conservation@wnewbury.org.