- LeFurge Fencerow Clearing – Day 1
- LeFurge Fencerow Clearing – Day 2
- LeFurge Fencerow Clearing – Day 3
- LeFurge Fencerow Clearing – Day 4
- LeFurge Fencerow Clearing – Day 5
- LeFurge Fencerow Clearing – Starting Out
- LeFurge Fencerow Clearing – Day 6
- LeFurge Fencerow Clearing – Day 7
- LeFurge Fencerow Clearing – Day 8
- LeFurge Fencerow Clearing – Day 9
At the LeFurge Woods Nature Preserve there is a fencerow that runs West to East when you exit the parking lot and start at the trailhead.
It is severely overgrown with a lot of non-native species, primarily Buckthorn. I thought it might make a good winter project to start clearing it out! It’s especially nice for the winter since it is close to parking (so I can warm up if needed!) and not far to carry equipment. (Because stuff is heavy, and stomping through snow doesn’t make it any easier.)
I asked about undertaking it as a project and got the go ahead.
To get an idea of the work involved I plotted it out on Google Earth.
It is a total of 453 feet in length from the back of the kiosk to the perpendicular trail at the end, and has 25,822 square feet. Whew! Not the largest area I cleared for sure, but it has a lot of much larger growth in it. It sounds a lot better to say “It’s only a little over a half acre!” (.59 actually.)
