Brice Prairie Conservation Association

Cutter crews headed out into rather dense understory with bow saws and chain saws to cut buckthorn saplings. Stumps were treated to prevent re-growth.
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Cut samplings are dragged to a clear processing site and trimmed to 8-12 ft lengths
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Ropes placed under the bundles before stacking are brought around and cinched down to bind the bundles
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Stout parts of sapling trunks are shaped to serve as stakes to hold the bundles in place.
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Initially, we tried to haul brush bundles by boat directly from the cutting site, but, well, that didn't work out so well. Too shallow for a heavily-laden small boat, even with a mud motor.
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Plan B involved hauling brush bundles up to truck beds and a trailer to the Fred Funk landing, to get a deeper route for boat transport to the breach site.
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At the landing, bundles are hauled back down to the boat....
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Heavily-laden boat hauling brush bundles to a staging area at breach site
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Brush bundles are placed in the breach opening
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Stakes are then pounded down through the stacks of bundles
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Before and after views of the opening in the barrier island