Black Rocks to Cogmill June 2023

There hasn’t been much rain for the past few weeks so the river level is fairly low making wading relatively easy. We walked up to the little islands between Black Rocks and Cogmill and cleared a lot of balsam from the islands and from the opposite bank. Fresh barbed wire prevented us from reaching more balsam along the edge of the fields.

Before

After

The balsam is getting to be quite tall and the first flowers are starting to appear.

On the way back we found a few isolated plants along the path and at the corner of the recently cleared area downstream from Black Rocks, we found a large clump in the undergrowth which we managed to clear.