Today we had a picnic lunch at Sauchest Point Nature Preserve. We saw cormorants and ring billed gulls and Harlequin ducks and song sparrows. We were looking for bunnies and snakes and deer but we didn't see any of those. We saw an over abundance of oriental bittersweet vines. The invasive vines were so thick deer couldn't get through it. Some of this property is managed with fire and chemicals and machinery. The managed part of the salt water sanctuary is rife with ragweed and goldenrod and other plants. The less managed parts are thick with bittersweet. This oriental bittersweet is so cunning the plant changes the chemistry of the soil so that the soil benefits them and not the native species.
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