Home on the Grange will meet at 7 p.m. Monday at the Grange Hall in North Pole. The topic this week is “Invasive Species,” particularly the popular ornamental chokecherry tree. Both Prunus padus, ...
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner: Want to replace invasive bird cherry and chokecherry trees? Plant these instead
Alaskans have a love-hate relationship with mayday trees. The mayday tree (Prunus padus), aka European bird cherry, and its cousin the chokecherry (Prunus virginiana) have historically been popular ...
Want to replace invasive bird cherry and chokecherry trees? Plant these instead
Volunteers work in Anchorage’s Tikishla Park on Aug. 19 to pull out invasive chokecherry trees, also known as European bird cherry trees. The volunteers were participating in a “weed smackdown” that ...
In this episode of ID That Tree, Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee introduces the Chokecherry. This species is found in the North Woods of Northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan ...
Alaska Dispatch News: Effort to eradicate invasive chokecherry trees in Anchorage takes determination — and $100 bounties
It’s a beast. It’s a bully. And its time is up, forest experts and community members say. The ornamental chokecherry tree, invasive in Alaska, has gotten so bad in some areas that the state used grant ...
Effort to eradicate invasive chokecherry trees in Anchorage takes determination — and $100 bounties
On Monday, another step was taken in the long process of weeding out popular but invasive chokecherry trees on the University of Alaska Fairbanks Troth Yeddha’ Campus. Seven chokecherry trees (Prunus ...