Two Central Iowa members discovered garlic mustard in Brush Creek Canyon
State Preserve in Fayette County last week.  This is very short notice, but
they are going to go back to pull all they can this Saturday, the 24th, and
would be glad to have anyone
 join them who can.  They have been in touch with John Pearson at the DNR
and he has notified the preserve managers that they are coming. (Managers
are  Scot Michelson  and Tom Talverson, based in the Volga River Recreation
Area.)   John also said that Ed Freeze, a botanist from Waverly, is
conducting a botanical survey there for the DNR this summer.

Perhaps many of you  are already aware of this infestation.   Penny and
John did not have time to explore the entire Preserve, but in the areas
where they saw the mustard--the entrance road and restroom area--it looked
controllable.  We know that garlic mustard is rampant all over northeast
Iowa, but Brush Creek is such a beautiful place they hope that there is
someone in the area who will be willing to take this on as a project and
get volunteers in there before the mustard  becomes uncontrollable.

Jo Hudson
Conservation Chair, Central Iowa Sierra

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