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SCA Crews To Remove Invasive Species At Indiana Dunes National Park

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September 5, 2024

Student Conservation Association crews will work in the West Beach Area of Indiana Dunes National Park, and other areas, this fall to remove invasive vegetation and collective native seeds/NPS file

A five-person team from the Student Conservation Association will work this fall at Indiana Dunes National Park in Indiana to remove invasive vegetation.

The crew, provided by the National Park Foundation to assist the park’s natural resource management team, will work alongside park staff into mid-December in the Great Marsh, West Beach and Portage Lakefront, and Riverwalk to remove invasive plant species, collect seed from native plants, and plant native vegetation to help restore these areas.  

While significant efforts have been made by the park to protect and restore these areas, the SCA team will help augment and expand these efforts to enhance biodiversity and improve the visitor experience. 

"Indiana Dunes National Park is home to an incredible diversity of plants and animals, but invasive plants impact all wild life, as well we the scenic beauty of the park," said park biologist Laura Brennan. "The efforts of this SCA team will have a direct positive impact on multiple rare habitats and dozens of rare plant species."

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Submitted by neato on September 5, 2024 - 9:57am.

And it continues.  The death by a thousand cuts.  Slowly but surely these ever growing not for profits take more and more good paying federal jobs and turn them into season volunteer low pay servitude.  

Its bad for the parks, Its bad for the workers, its bad for the tourists.

But its good for the few making bank in these not for profit executive boards.

And our public lands are now pretty much private.  


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