Garlic Mustard Challenge 2009
The Winners
Results
Photos
Thanks to our Sponsors
What's Next?
This year's garlic mustard challegne was a hurge success! Over the course of the challenge:
- 866 volunteers worked at ...
- 46 events in ...
- 19 different Montgomery County Parks and volunteers removed ...
- 9,277 pounds of garlic mustard!
Many heartfelt thanks to all our amazing volunteers for their time, energy, and efforts to help save the forests by removing tons of garlic mustard from parkland!
The Garlic Mustard Challenge is a county-wide competition sponsored by the Montgomery County Department of Parks to help save the forest and weed out garlic mustard—one of the most invasive non-native plants taking over your parks!
Save the date!
Garlic Mustard Challenge 2010 will be Saturday, April 24!! Projects will be held at various times throughout the Montgomery Parks
The Winners!
- Greatest amount pulled by a group: Temple Emmanuel at Rock Creek SVP along Beach Drive!
- Greatest amount pulled per person in a group: Troop 2113 at Maydale Park!
- Greatest amount pulled by a family: The Pinko Family at Locust Grove Nature Center
- Greatest amount pulled by an individual:
- First place: David Muhlbaum at Capital Crescent Trail pulling 118 pounds!!
- Second place: Jessica Watts at Brookside Gardens pulling 29 pounds!
- Third place: Dorothy Bunns at Meadowside Nature Center pulling 17.6 pounds!
Results
Location |
# of |
Lbs. Pulled |
|---|---|---|
Audubon Naturalist Woodend Sanctuary (Joining our effort!) |
32 |
361.5 |
Black Hill Regional Park |
44 |
218 |
Brookside Gardens |
12 |
72 |
Brookside Nature Center (multiple events) |
26 |
212 |
Capital Crescent Trail (multiple events) |
100 |
1725 |
Capital View Homewood Park (GM free!) |
15 |
120 |
Flower Valley Neighborhood Park |
13 |
190 |
Indian Spring Terrace Local Parks (GM free!) |
4 |
75 |
Lathrop E. Smith Outdoor Education Center |
60 |
270 |
Little Bennett Regional Park |
39 |
388 |
Little Falls Stream Valley Park (multiple events) |
50 |
1080 |
Locust Grove Nature Center (multiple events) |
24 |
242 |
Maydale Park |
35 |
156 |
McKenney Hill Local Park |
30 |
450 |
Meadowside Nature Center |
43 |
244 |
Meadowbrook Park along Rock Creek Stream Valley |
4 |
300 |
Rachel Carson Greenway Trail |
32 |
361.5 |
Rock Creek SVP along Beach Drive (multiple events) |
88 |
998 |
Sligo Creek and Long Branch SVP (multiple events) |
147 |
1,253 |
Tilden Woods Local Park |
46 |
420 |
Wheaton Regional Park |
22 |
141 |
TOTALS: 46 Events |
877 VOLUNTEERS |
9277 LBS |
Photos
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Thanks to Our Sponsors!
The following businesses donated prizes for our contest: REI (Recreation Equipment Incorporated, Washington Freedom Soccer Club, DC United Major League Soccer team, Bowie Baysox Baseball Club. Also, each participant received a FREE Park Pass redeemable for admission to various Montgomery County Parks activities. After working in the parks, now it’s time to play in the parks!!
What's Next?
The Challenge may be over but the efforts to eradicate garlic mustard continues! Here's how you can help:
- Save the date!!
Garlic Mustard Challenge 2010 schedule is online! Click here for the schedule. - Join Friends of Sligo Creek for one of their many pulls over the next several weeks. Visit their website for times and locations: http://www.fosc.org/RIPEventSched.htm
- Have a group that would like to join in the effort?
Lynette Scaffidi, Natural Resources Specialist at: Lynette.Scaffidi@montgomeryparks.org or 301-949-0223 to set up a pull for your group! - Become a Certified Weed Warrior and you are certified to pull any day at any Montgomery County Park! Volunteers must complete a two-part online course and participate in a two-hour field training session with a forest ecologist. Certified Weed Warriors will then be authorized to work anywhere on Montgomery County Park & Planning Commission (M-NCPPC) parkland, on their own schedules and at their own pace. Visit www.WeedWarrior.org or contact Paul Carlson, Natural Resources Specialist at: Paul.Carlson@montgomeryparks.org or 301-942-4709
Thanks to all our Park’s staff that supported this effort and brought the hundreds of bags of garlic mustard to the Montgomery Transfer Station for composting!
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