Presentation On Invasive Plant Management
When: Thursday, February 26 at 5 pm
Where: Kettle Pond Visitor Center, 50 Bend Road, Charlestown
Cost: Free and open to all! No pre-registration required.
Join the Charlestown Land Trust for a presentation with landscape architect and arborist Michael Cavanagh on invasive plant management. Design, permitting and implementation practices will be shared, reviewed, and discussed with a focus on the native plant communities that we use to support local ecosystems and to minimize invasive plant problems.
About Michael Cavanagh: Michael is an arborist with Bartlett Tree Experts, a licensed landscape architect, and a Certified Invasive Plant Manager. He holds a master’s degree from the Conway School of Sustainable Landscape Design and Planning and has worked across diverse landscape contexts throughout New England and beyond.
Banner image is a photograph of Japanese Knotweed. Japanese knotweed’s ecological impacts include outcompeting and displacing native plants, creating monocultures that reduce biodiversity for insects, birds, and mammals, and destabilizing riverbanks, which increases erosion, degrades aquatic habitats, and worsens flood risks. Its aggressive growth blocks sunlight, alters soil chemistry, and its shallow root systems fail to hold soil, creating a cascade of negative effects on local ecosystems.
February 22, 2026 @ 11:59 am
I’m a little concerned you photographed native desired plants and placed it over the heading of invasives. People who don’t actually read might mistake them and get rid of them.
February 22, 2026 @ 4:31 pm
Thanks! We replaced with a photo and description of Japanese Knotweed, which is a terrible invasive.