ABOUT US

This website was created by Dave Turbenson.

Dave’s mission. I moved to Plymouth 8 years ago for the schools and parks. Living near the Oakwood Woods, I looked forward to the day my kids would ride their bikes through the trails in the woods. Now that they are riding bikes they can’t ride their bikes in the Oakwood woods. The dozen or more trails that used be navigated by the local kids have now become impassable due to the overgrown buckthorn. After reaching out to several active buckthorn removal enthusiasts in the Twins Cities and getting educated I feel it is now my duty to help clear my local woods. I hope my experience will inspire other Twin City residents to take their own action against non-native invasive plant species.

The eventual goal of this website is to make resources available to activists who would like to organize and coordinate buckthorn removal events. We will be posting generic flyers and check lists so other people can easily coordinate and organize to remove massive amounts of buckthorn from their local parks and woodlands.