Happy Camp Plants Crew

The Spring weeding season is in full swing and Mid Klamath Watershed Council’s (MKWC) plants crews are hard at work removing invasive plants. In May, the Happy Camp crew focused on pulling weeds in the Yeti, McCash, and Slater Fire footprints. After five years of consistently removing Dyer's woad along Grayback Road above West Branch campground, we are seeing major reductions in these woad populations. Some sites that took us all day to pull after the Slater Fire have reduced to a handful of plants and can be removed in half an hour. The Orleans crew has been focusing on removing oblong spurge and Italian thistle from along the river corridor, working hard to prevent these species from spreading.