Honeysuckle battle!

On Saturday, Linda Lehrbaum and I led a group of gung-ho Rockhurst students as they worked to rid the beautiful glade at Swope Park of invasive brush honeysuckle.  This was a Kansas City Wildlands workday, and the work group was comprised entirely of Rockhurst Plant Biology and honors students.  They were hardcore workers, not bothered by the manual labor, the cold wind or the overcast skies (or the fact that they had to get up early on a Saturday).  The picture shows the group, saws crossed, proudly posed in front of one of many piles of conquered honeysuckle. 
The next KCWildlands event, on December 3rd, is described below.  Please come out to Olathe to pick out and cut down your very own Christmas tree while at the same time helping to decrease the local population of invasive native red cedars!