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For more than a decade, volunteers have been planning the future of eight wooded acres and a stream adjacent to Charlottesville’s McIntire Park. Job one, says Executive Director Jill Trischman-Marks, was clearing the site.
“This was the former leaf dump and mulch pile for the city of Charlottesville.”
Which meant lots of invasive seeds were left here: garlic mustard, privet, bittersweet, kudzu.
And there was a fair amount of trash. Tires, mattresses – you know, the usual.
Marketing Director Ann AllevaTaylor says clearing the site was a big job – aided by dozens of volunteers, and when the Bartlett Tree Company offered its assistance, workers were delighted by what they found. After tearing down hundreds of invasive vines, Trischman-Marks says they discovered two rare butternut trees.