Invasive species cause headaches for area parks
By Paul Wood
Monday August 21, 2006
Vanda Bidwell
Dan Olson, natural resources director of the Champaign County Forest Preserve District, displays some of the autumn olive at the Salt Fork Forest Preserve near Homer.
HOMER LAKE – Autumn olive is a good thing to plant if you want to fix nutrients in your soil. But, as often is the case with good things, you can quickly get too much of autumn olive.
Once you've had autumn olive pointed out to you at the Salt Fork River Forest Preserve near Homer, you'll see it everywhere. Before Homer Lake was a park, it was a state tree nursery, and state officials encouraged planting it between rows to fix nitrogen in the soil.
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