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The Ashburn Village Invasives Removal Team (AVIRT) is kicking off a new challenge, and we need your help!
Pavilion Lake, Ashburn Village’s most popular destination, is home to at least a dozen plants on the Virginia Invasive Species List. These invasives are crowding out and taking over the native trees, bushes, and flowers there. So for the next 12 months, AVIRT will focus on creating an invasive-free lake in the heart of our HOA.
We’re starting with the Bradford/Callery pears, white mulberries, and Amur maples. Fall is the best time to tackle invasive trees, so AVIRT has scheduled two workdays for this purpose: Sunday, September 28 and Sunday, October 19.
If you helped us battle the Tree of Heaven this summer, use the skills you learned to treat approximately 40 pear and mulberry trees ahead of their removal as well as to begin cutting down and treating the hundreds of saplings around Pavilion Lake.
If you haven’t volunteered with us before, come and learn how to spot these invasive trees and get rid of them.
The Pavilion Lake Invasive-Free Challenge will continue throughout fall and winter and into next spring with additional workdays to remove invasive bushes and vines most easily handled during non-growing months.
When: Sunday, September 28: 9AM - 11AM
Where: Meet at Ashburn Village Sports Pavilion parking lot.
What to bring: Hand pruners, loppers, pruning saws if you have them. Not required. Participants may work with herbicides (applied via daubers), so personal protective equipment (safety glasses and nitrile gloves) will be provided. Also, you must wear a hat, long sleeves, long pants, and closed-toe shoes. Sunglasses and gardening/work gloves will be useful.
If you have any issues/questions registering below, please emailTracy Whittington at nabertj@gmail.com or text her at 412-848-2850.