20 February 2008 - 16:35, Tinman said
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The rains parted long enough for a truly dazzling afternoon on Twin Peaks. The primary objectives were Scotch broom, radish, and Italian thistle in the rich grasslands on the northern and eastern flanks of Twin Peaks.

The upper reaches of Twin Peaks have been the focus of concerted work for a number of years, and the impenetrable thickets that used to be there are gone, requiring fairly trivial sweep operations to keep them that way.

However, lower down on Twin Peaks, the broom remains a terrible problem:

Small broom plants can be pulled by hand or with a weed wrench, but really large tree-like broom must be dealt with via the “cut-n-peel” technique. The bark on the stump peels remarkably easily and cleanly down to ground level, which reliably kills the plant:

We encountered one critter—a small local lizard:

We found remarkable displays of blooming perennials; check them out in the photo section!

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