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The Burnham Park Association partners with Morristown and Morris Twp, Morris County, parks commissions, environmental organizations and other groups on projects to enhance, preserve, restore and maintain Burnham Park, Jones Woods, the Green Strip and neighboring areas. We invite input and volunteer assistance.
Other ways to get involved and stay informed is to join the BPA, attend a meeting, sign-up for the BPA e-news (below) or attend our annual Arbor Day and other events. In February 2023, Morristown issued the Burnham Park Revitalization Plan. We encourage everyone to review this comprehensive plan and join Town's community wide effort to improve and maintain Burnham Park. |
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INVASIVES OUT NATIVES IN As part of an ongoing Habitat Restoration project, in the late fall and winter, a team of volunteers rakes up stilt grass and prepares areas in Jones Woods and the Green Strip for future seeding. They return at the best time of year for seeding and replace the invasives with meadow grass and flowers. In the Spring, they plant annuals for cover and removed more invasives. This is a monumental task but it's fun and rewording! Please fill out this form if you would like to join the effort. |
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INVASIVES MANAGEMENT & HABITAT RESTORATION
Jones Woods and Green Strip
An invasives removal team led by Rick Bye (trailmaster) and Susan and John Landau are removing (raking) stilt grass from sections of Jones Woods and the Green Strip (wooded area between East and West Lake Blvds) and reseeding these areas with native grasses and flowers. The team is also planting annuals to give the area some cover allowing the perennials to grow and flower in future years. Let us know if you would like to join us.
BPA members and neighbors initiated a de-vining effort at the bottom of the Green Strip (the forested area between East and West Lake Boulevards). Invasive porcelain-berry and Japanese honeysuckle have overwhelmed a number of trees, including the lovely grouping of large cedar trees in the center of the lower grassy area. These vines are vigorous climbers whose dense mat of leaves shades the leaves of their host trees, stealing their sunlight and killing them. Initially, we are targeting the cedar trees, but over the long term, we will de-vine other trees in the area that are being strangled by invasives.
Invasives removal and de-vining is part of a nascent effort to protect and restore the natural habitats in Jones Woods, the Green Strip and Burnham Park by attempting to manage invasive species and nurture and introduce native ones. John and Susan Landau, who are leading a similar ongoing effort at Morristown’s Foote’s Pond, are providing training, guidance and hours of their time to help us on this side of town. We are very grateful for their assistance!
This invasive species management and habitat restoration effort is conducted in cooperation with and support of the Morris Township administration and Parks department. It includes, in addition to de-vining and removal of stilt grass, an attack on several dense thickets of Devil’s Walking Stick, aka Japanese Angelica, in Jones Woods, and the spreading of a special erosion control mix of native grass and forb seeds on the exposed steep slope in the Green Strip on West Lake Blvd where the large trees were cut down in 2019.
Burnham Park
The BPA is establishing an Invasives Task Force with approval from Morristown to address the heavy infestation of vines that are choking off trees in the upper end of Burnham Park. The BPA attended an Invasives Removal Training Workshop held by the Morristown Shade Tree Commission and will move forward guided by Morristown's 2023 Burnham Park Revitalization Plan in 2023.
Jones Woods and Green Strip
An invasives removal team led by Rick Bye (trailmaster) and Susan and John Landau are removing (raking) stilt grass from sections of Jones Woods and the Green Strip (wooded area between East and West Lake Blvds) and reseeding these areas with native grasses and flowers. The team is also planting annuals to give the area some cover allowing the perennials to grow and flower in future years. Let us know if you would like to join us.
BPA members and neighbors initiated a de-vining effort at the bottom of the Green Strip (the forested area between East and West Lake Boulevards). Invasive porcelain-berry and Japanese honeysuckle have overwhelmed a number of trees, including the lovely grouping of large cedar trees in the center of the lower grassy area. These vines are vigorous climbers whose dense mat of leaves shades the leaves of their host trees, stealing their sunlight and killing them. Initially, we are targeting the cedar trees, but over the long term, we will de-vine other trees in the area that are being strangled by invasives.
Invasives removal and de-vining is part of a nascent effort to protect and restore the natural habitats in Jones Woods, the Green Strip and Burnham Park by attempting to manage invasive species and nurture and introduce native ones. John and Susan Landau, who are leading a similar ongoing effort at Morristown’s Foote’s Pond, are providing training, guidance and hours of their time to help us on this side of town. We are very grateful for their assistance!
This invasive species management and habitat restoration effort is conducted in cooperation with and support of the Morris Township administration and Parks department. It includes, in addition to de-vining and removal of stilt grass, an attack on several dense thickets of Devil’s Walking Stick, aka Japanese Angelica, in Jones Woods, and the spreading of a special erosion control mix of native grass and forb seeds on the exposed steep slope in the Green Strip on West Lake Blvd where the large trees were cut down in 2019.
Burnham Park
The BPA is establishing an Invasives Task Force with approval from Morristown to address the heavy infestation of vines that are choking off trees in the upper end of Burnham Park. The BPA attended an Invasives Removal Training Workshop held by the Morristown Shade Tree Commission and will move forward guided by Morristown's 2023 Burnham Park Revitalization Plan in 2023.
