Sometimes, you want to plant a tree and connect with nature; sometimes, you have to fight nature tooth and nail.
The city of Duluth Parks and Recreation Department exists to foster Duluth’s natural beauty, but sometimes the department needs some help fighting the invasive species that threaten to destroy the area’s natural ecology.
In that spirit, the parks department is holding what it refers to as September Bamboo Blastings. Though Eh? very much doubts explosives will be used.
The public is invited to learn about the identification, removal and disposal of Japanese knotweed, a plant with a bamboo-like appearance that has the ability to obliterate the world ... OK, maybe not the world, but it grows super fast, several inches in a day, about 10 feet or more each year, the legends say. And by legends, Eh? means the statement from the city Parks Department.
Dates for the bamboo blastings:
* Tuesday, 5-6:30 p.m., meet at Fairmont Park, near Lake Superior Zoo
* Sept. 16, 5-6:30 p.m., meet at 40th Avenue East and the Lakewalk
* Sept. 23, 5-6:30 p.m., meet at 58th Avenue East and the Lakewalk
* Sept. 30, 5-6:30 p.m., meet at Chester Parkway and East Skyline Parkway
For more information about these events, contact Cheryl Skafte, volunteer coordinator for the city of Duluth, at (218) 730-4334, or email
cskafte@duluthmn.gov
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