On Saturday from 9:30-12:30, the Roslyn branch volunteered at Connetquot River state park preserve. We worked in the connetquot river state park and helped to move the invasive plants. The reason why we doing that is that they are usually nonnative, they offer less value to wildlife, and they take over the determinant of the local environment. The spread of invasive species is second only to outright development as a means of destroying our natural environment. Although there is some nutritional value in their berries, compare with natives, the natives are better.
There are three types of plants: Japanese Barberry(small shrub), Rosa multiflora(big thorn shrub), and Japanese honeysuckle(vine). Barberry and Rosa’s multiflora have a lot of thorns which hurt people a lot today, but we are still hard working. Also, we don’t need to take the roots out today, because of the winter they will be frozen/eroded. Doing this work was not easy you need to cut all of these over (some of it was very very thick and had a lot of thorns on them which will make people hurt) and collect them for the cart. In the end, we were done with 6 carts of the plants! Which was amazing!
Even under freezing conditions, All of us still don’t give up and work hard together. This is a very precious spirit!
Members who participated include: Zixi Xia (3 hours), Fanxi Xia (3 hours), Ethan Lin (3 hours), and Ryan Lin (3 hours).
Reporter: Fanxi Xia