Take the Garlic Mustard Challenge 2010
Our parks are being invaded by ALIENS!
And the winners are....
FIVE! Count 'em ...... 1, 2, 3, 4 .... more than 5 TONS of Garlic Mustard were removed from our parks in one day!
This year's garlic mustard challenge was a huge success! Over the course of the challenge:
- 671 volunteers worked at ...
- 43 events in ...
- 19 different Montgomery County Parks and volunteers removed ...
- 10,644 pounds(over 5 TONS!) 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! Find out more about the 2010 Garlic Mustard Challenge winners!
About the Challenge
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 aliens invading your parks.
Garlic mustard is a non-native invasive (NNI) plant that is out-competing native plants and trees in parks. This weed, is easy to identify and easy to pull. We’ll teach you how. Gather up your family, friends, club members and neighbors.
We provide the bags, volunteers fill them with garlic mustard and turn them back in to one of our weigh stations on the Challenge Days. This year we pulled over 10,000 pounds of the stuff!
Thanks to our Sponsors!
Thanks to our sponsors, REI and the Washington Freedom Soccer Club - And just for helping us clear this invasive weed from our parks, all participants receive a free “Play in the Parks” card good for free and/or discounted Montgomery Park’s activities.
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