by WhiteOak | Sep 1, 2014 | Helms Phillips Forest
With continued support from the Ecology Wildlife Foundation to eradicate invasive species, Austin Jamison of Chesapeake Wildlife Heritage went into the Helms Phillips Forest to tackle garlic mustard and Japanese stilt grass. The garlic mustard effort also let the...
by WhiteOak | Sep 1, 2013 | Helms Phillips Forest
Former Foundation director Nancy Weiss recommended Austin Jamison, a Habitat Coordinator with Chesapeake Wildlife Heritage, for forest work. He has met with Foundation officers and visited the Helms Phillips forest twice. He is taking aim at garlic mustard during the...
by WhiteOak | Jun 1, 2012 | Helms Phillips Forest
Probable or Known Extent of Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata) infestation across the Helms-Phillips 500-Year Forest We hired Rodney Nice to give us a picture of the invasive plants in this forest. His report and management plan is focused on identifying and...
by WhiteOak | Dec 1, 2010 | Helms Phillips Forest
For two years in the late 1990’s, Rick and Carolyn traveled the back roads in Albemarle County looking for their special place. In 1999 they found a lovely and unusual site of 206.5 acres south of Batesville in the upper end of “Big Spring Valley”. Their lower valley,...
