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By Joseph Pinciaro, Patch.com
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484 days ago
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Nature Conservancy
NORTH FORK, NEW YORK (Patch.com) - According to a "Newsday" article, volunteers with the Nature Conservancy will work on cutting off the spread of an invasive vine next month at the Mashomack Preserve on Shelter Island.
According to a report in Newsday, volunteers will soon take battle yet again with an invasive species in Shelter Island's enormous Mashomack Preserve that has been wrapping itself around trees for nearly a decade.
Oriental Bittersweet, as the vine is known, is contained to a few hundred acres within the 2,900-acre preserve, according to the report. Next month, volunteers with the Nature Conservancy will head into the woods to try and cut down its presence.
The report quotes the Nature Conservancy's natural resources manager as saying the following: "There are places that were cleared for agricultural reasons and left to revegetate on their own . . . that's the areas where Oriental Bittersweet tends to colonize."
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