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Lowell Trust cleared to pilot volunteer-led knotweed removal along Concord River
Summary
The Lowell Parks and Conservation Trust received a negative-3 determination from the Lowell Conservation Commission to proceed with a volunteer-led Japanese knotweed control pilot at Jolene Dubner Park and the Concord River Greenway using staged cutting and targeted herbicide application.
The Lowell Parks and Conservation Trust received approval from the Lowell Conservation Commission on a request for determination of applicability to begin a pilot invasive-species removal project at Jolene Dubner Park and along the Concord River Greenway.
The project, led by the trust with consultant Brian Kollaren of Ecological Management Solutions, will use repeated manual cutting by volunteers followed by targeted herbicide injection or spraying where necessary. Jane Calvin, executive director of the Lowell Parks and Conservation Trust, told the commission that “invasives are a big issue in the city” and described the work as a pilot intended to inform future riverbank stewardship.
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