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River Road Habitat Restoration 2017

Boy Scout Troop 120
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Forty-nine volunteers from Boy Scout Troop 120 pulled invasive Japanese honeysuckle vines and replaced them with plants indigenous to Indiana to restore native habitats at River Road Park in Carmel. Led by Drew B. for his Eagle Scout project, the team logged in over 190 man hours of work. Japanese honeysuckle damages forest communities by out competing native vegetation for light, below-ground resources, and by changing forest structure. The vines over-top adjacent vegetation by twining about and completely covering small trees and shrubs, which endangers native plant and animal habitats.
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Scout and adult volunteers worked together to pull invasive Japanese honeysuckle, which had overgrown large areas of River Road Park.
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Drew and his team planted 25 bare-root Paw Paw trees and 25 Spice Bushes, both of which are native to Indiana. These plants will shield the light from reaching any of the existing honeysuckle plants, preventing growth of the invasive plant.
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Here is a photo of the River Road Park forest area before the habitat restoration work. The invasive honeysuckle can be seen trying to overtake the native plants.
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The Volunteers were mainly students and adults from Boy Scout Troop 120, and consisted of 25 youth and 24 adults.

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Fifty wild golden glow flower plugs and fifty great blue lobelia (cardinal) flower plugs were also planted to renew the natural habitats of the area and restore the balance upset by the honeysuckle that grew there.
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Here is a photo of the area after Drew and his team cleared the invasive honey suckle and planted the area with native Indiana plants and flowers. This revitalized forest will now be a habitat for native Indiana wildlife.
To learn more about invasive Japanese Honeysuckle and what you can do to help prevent the damage it causes, please watch this short video or download the document below.
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    • 2021 Projects
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    • 2018 Projects >
      • Helping Ninjas Help Pollinators
      • Helping Ninjas Help Garden and Compost
      • This is NOT a Plastic Bag
    • 2017 Projects >
      • UHS Bat Boxes
      • Don'f Flip It, Save It! - Water Bottles
      • River Road Habitat Restoration
    • 2016 Projects >
      • It's in the Reusable Bag
      • Plots to Plates Gardens Tour
      • Millbrook Nature Trail
      • UHS Poultry Project
      • Green Cubs Tree Planting
      • OLMC Tree Replacement
      • Woodbrook Butterfly Garden
      • Turn Up for Compost
    • 2015 Projects >
      • OPE Recycling Cubs
      • Goodbye Plastics 2
      • UHS Monarch Waystation
      • UHS Hydration Station
      • CHS Earth Fair
      • CHS NHS Event Recycling
    • 2014 Projects >
      • Girl Scout Teaches Conservation
      • Carmel Pollinator Garden
      • Trees For Future Generations
      • CHS TEDx Conference
      • UHS Campus Green Up
    • 2013 Projects >
      • CHS Teaches Conservation
      • Bug Repellent Daisies
      • Kids Against Crayon Waste- Crayon Recycling
      • UHS Community Garden
      • A Greener College Wood
      • Do Something Trees
      • No Crayon Left Behind
      • Prairie Trace Trees
      • Goodbye Plastics
      • Carmel Green Trees
      • CHS Recycled Arts Garden
      • Going Green at the CLC
    • 2012 Projects >
      • UHS Tree Hugging Trailblazers
      • Girl Scouts Bikeyard 100
      • Bat Boxes- Nature's Bug Zappers
      • CHS Green Shower Power
    • 2011 Projects >
      • Mission Recycle
      • Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
      • Recycling at CHS
      • A Greener Tomorrow is in the Bag
      • Fishing Line Recycling
    • 2010 Projects >
      • MOSAICS Family Garden
      • Coolers are Cooler with Cups
      • Ban the Bottle, Try the Tap
      • Butterfly Reintroduction Carey Grove Park
      • Butterfly Reintroduction Clay Middle School
      • Tree Scouts
    • 2009 Projects >
      • River Trail Wildflower Reintroduction
      • Scouts' Reusable Shopping Bags
      • St. Christopher's Garden
      • Earth Day Tree Seedling Giveaway
      • CHS Green Lights Club
  • Impact
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