Kingman and Mills Batteries (Weeks 6 and 7)

North of Spermaceti Cove on the bay side of Sandy Hook are Batteries Kingman and Mills. The good thing about Kingman and Mills was that there was much less poison ivy; however, the bad thing was that it had very dense stands of tree of heaven on a steep hillside. So it was very difficult to reach some of the trees, and the team was unable to finish the site. Yet they pulled through and were able to do a lot of work in such a confined, small area. Overall Gateway team performed cut stump treatment on 3,332 trees of heaven on less than two acres of land.

Before photo with Dennise in front of dense stand of Tree of Heaven
After photo with no Dennise and no dense stand of Tree of Heaven
Mike at Kingman Mills--Booyah!!!
Mike about to chainsaw tree of heaven (Before)
Mike with a perfect open-face cut (Midway)
TIMBER! (Not the After photo, yet)
Dennise and Mike in front of perfectly cut and herbicide-treated stump (After)
Kingman and Mills Batteries (Before)
Kingman and Mills Batteries (After)
Dennise holding mullein plant at Kingman Mills
Nick chainsawing tree of heaven (Before)
Nick and tree of heaven (After)
Nick-Chainsaw Zen
Kingman and Mills (Before)
Kingman and Mills (After)

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Project Leader: Susan Robinson Project Dates: August 16 - December 10, 2010 Email Address: srobinson@theSCA.org