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8) Monitor the site's response to initial restoration and management treatments, and refine management approach and methods as needed; and 9) Install conservation area (outlot) boundary markers and interpretive signage that clearly defines the boundaries of the conservation area. Year One (May 1 through December 31, 2006) Restoration and Management Tasks • Salvage local- ecotype native forest wildflowers, ferns, and sedges from oak forest areas that are proposed for development (prior to grading), transplanting in forested (oak) conservation areas during the second quarter of the year; • Reed canary grass will be chemically treated with Glyphosate in the fall (third quarters and fourth), so that the herbicide is translocated into the root systems. Monotypes of reed canary grass will be treated with a boom sprayer. Small patches of reed canary grass will be chemically treated with Sethoxydim grass - specific herbicides, to minimize impacts to associated native grasses and forbs. Spot treatment of reed canary grass will be accomplished with a backpack sprayer to limit /eliminate overspray; • Common buckthorn will be cut and the biomass removed from the site. Following cutting, stumps will be treated with Glyphosate to control re- sprouting. Cutting will be accomplished with chainsaws and brush cutters (during the second and third quarter of the year; • Quaking aspen along wetland/forest transitions will be thinned and managed during the second and third quarters of the year; • The wetland mitigation and infiltration areas will be seeded in the fourth quarter of the year; • Residential rainwater gardens will be seeded in the second and third quarters of the year; • Known locations of endangered plant populations will be monitored during the second and third quarters of the year; and • Conservation area boundary markers and interpretive signage will be installed during the second or third quarter of the year; Year Two (January 1 through December 31, 2007) Restoration and Management Tasks • Salvage local- ecotype native forest wildflowers, ferns, and sedges from oak forest areas that are proposed for development (prior to grading), transplanting in forested (oak) conservation areas during the second quarter of the year; • Reed canary grass -will be chemically treated with Glyphosate in the fall (third quarter and fourth), so that the herbicide is translocated into the root systems. Monotypes of reed canary grass will be treated with a boom sprayer. Small patches of reed canary grass will be chemically treated with Sethoxydim grass - specific herbicides, to minimize impacts to associated native grasses and forbs. Spot treatment of reed canary grass will be accomplished with a backpack sprayer to limit/eliminate overspray; • Cattail monotypes will be mowed and de- thatched in the first quarter of year two (during frozen conditions) and chemically treated with Glyphosate in the spring and /or fall. Cattail biomass will be removed from the site and composted and /or burned; The Preserve Conservation Development - Restoration and Management Plan 21