An invasive species removal specialist took to social media to show the impressive results of a successful project in North Carolina. They explained that they spent a day removing ivy from a wooded area on a property in Cary.
The post featured before-and-after shots and included a color-coded map to track the specialist’s progress in eradicating the invasive plant species.
“It feels good to treat the cancer before it spread too far in this nice patch of woods,” they wrote. ”Two more neighbors completed their ivy removal and got lit in blue on the map, so we’re getting some nice coverage of the neighborhood at this point.”
As the National Invasive Species Information Center says, English ivy was brought to the United States in the late 1800s. Like other non-native plants , it has a detrimental effect by competing with local plants, overgrowing, and choking out native species. Ivy also infests trees and can present a significant wildfire hazard when it dies…