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• <br />• <br />Foxborough Conservation Development, Lino Lakes, MN <br />Proposal for Professional Restoration and Management Services <br />Critical Connections Ecological Services, Inc. <br />May 29, 2013 <br />Page 2 of 3 <br />Restoration crews will treat all cut buckthorn with a Glyphosate based herbicide in two ways <br />throughout the conservation outlots. The first method for buckthorn treatment will involve a <br />foliar application of herbicide in areas with lower stem densities of buckthorn. Once the <br />herbicide treatment is complete the stems will be left standing to decompose naturally. The <br />second method for buckthorn treatment involves the cutting and treating of the cut stump with <br />herbicide. This method will be used in areas where higher stem densities of buckthorn occur <br />such as in the northwest corner of Foxborough in Outlot E. <br />Task 1 Timeline: <br />Task 1 Costs: <br />August through October 2013 <br />$4,000 (Labor and Herbicide) <br />Task 2: Prescribed Burn of Selected Habitats within Conservation Outlots <br />CCES will perform a fall prescribed burn within up to 10 acres of the Foxborough conservation <br />outlots. Prescribed burning will focus on habitats that were not burned previously and /or have <br />the greatest ecological need for a prescribed burn. CCES will prepare a burning permit <br />application, obtain the permits, and prepare all burn units for prescribed burning (i.e. create <br />burn breaks and isolate burn units). The burn will be implemented in September to November <br />2013 depending on optimum time for conducting the burn. If the burn cannot be implement in <br />the fall of 2013 (due to weather constraints), CCES will implement the burn in the spring of <br />2014. <br />Task 2 Timeline: <br />Task 2 Costs: <br />September through October 2013 <br />$4,700 (Labor) <br />Task 3: Additional Native Seeding <br />CCES will develop specifications and order native seed mixes for inter - seeding into wetland and <br />upland areas needing additional native seed. Priority areas to be targeted for re- seeding and <br />inter - seeding in 2013 are bare soil areas within stormwater management wetlands and along <br />the edges of established trails. All species will be native and appropriate to the existing and <br />prescribed native habitats being seeding. Seed will be ordered in June and dispersed in late <br />June to July. <br />Task 3Timeline: <br />Task 3 Costs: <br />June through July 2013 <br />$800 Seed <br />$1,200 Labor <br />