After a winter of cleaning up invasives, brush, and logging slash, in the span of an hour last Monday night Mother Nature decided to throw some things around and set us back quite a bit. We have been clearing blocked trails, but our ability to clean up much more is going to be limited by heat and also that we are in oak wilt restriction season between April and October. Cutting oaks, even downed ones, is discouraged because it can spread the fungus that causes the disease. We have been able...

If you walk the trails the next few weeks you'll notice many knocked down trees. Most of these are large black locust, which are invasive around here. As part of our forest management plan with the DNR they want us to remove as many of these as possible. Winter is the best time because of the hard ground and the lack of leaves. No, we won't be letting them lay everywhere, we'll be cleaning them up. But because of the volume it is going to take a while. We are also taking down dead trees of...

It's late summer, and school is about to start. There are still things blooming on Cave Bluff, including what I call the "Back-To-School...