Tennesseans Roll Up Their Sleeves: “Prime Property” Work to be Done
Friday, September 28, 2007
Nashville, TN – Over 100,000 Tennesseeans will will head into the backcountry this weekend to clean up some of the state’s most-prime real estate: public lands. Saturday is National Public Lands Day and volunteers will be pulling weeds, repairing trails, and planting grasses and trees in fire zones.
Bill Terry with the Sierra Club says pulling weeds is especially important.
"I would completely support the event and the removal of the exotic species from public lands generally everywhere and private lands for that matter."
Terry says in Tennessee, plants like bush honeysuckle and winter creeper do more harm than good.
"Winter Creeper basically spreads and takes over everything. It covers and kills everything under it."
Public Lands day volunteers nationwide will invest almost $2 million worth of labor this weekend.
For more info visit: http://www.publiclandsday.org.
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