Over two days in late August, several shifts of students from Madison Country Day School, adding up to more than 50 sophomores and juniors, removed large swathes of buckthorn and honeysuckle from Dane County's Cherokee Marsh Natural Resource Area adjacent to the school grounds. The high school students enthusiastically battled invasive plants, continuing work that MCDS 6th-graders started in the late spring of 2024. The students were supervised by their teachers and by volunteers from the Friends of Cherokee Marsh: Linda Malkin, Mary Binkley, Timothy Baker, and Wendy Murkve.
At the same time, another large group of MCDS students helped attack invasive phragmites grass in the City of Madison's Cherokee Marsh Conservation Park South Unit with their teachers, supervised by Madison Parks conservation crew members, volunteer coordinator John Weichelt, and Jan Axelson from the Friends of Cherokee Marsh. Two Parks commissioners visited to observe.
This was a huge contribution of people power to improving the natural habitats in the Cherokee Marsh public lands. Bravo to all!
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