Field Notes from the Skagit River

Below, I highlight my experience monitoring and removing knotweed along the Skagit River based on field notes collected during my week there. It’s a crisp fall morning on the Skagit River—the sky is clear and the river is calm. Today we are floating down the river to survey and treat knotweed (Polygonum spp.) on the…

Blackberry Knockdown from Snow to Sun

The team here at Habitat Restoration Specialists spent a few weeks tackling a massive blackberry patch stretching along a road under some powerlines, alongside a forest buffer and some fences. By the end of our time on this large site, we had cut down about 136,000 square feet of blackberry! HRS owner Derek working his…