Conservation and Land Management

Workdays will focus on trail clearance or tread repairs. 

Clearing honeysuckle helps promote safety by improving site lines, opening up trail heads and trail intersections, and allowing light into the trail corridor. Removal of this invasive species is an important first step in improving the quality of the trail surface as we work to improve drainage throughout the park.

Join our team for one date or all of them. We will restore our beautiful native forest by killing invasive plants or stopping their spread. From late Fall through Winter and early Spring we'll cut and stack bush honeysuckle and other woody invasives. In Spring we'll pull and bag garlic mustard. In late Summer and early Fall we’ll pull and bag Japanese stilt grass and Japanese chaff flower, and throughout the year we may engage in other habitat restoration projects. This will usually be off trail in wooded, often hilly terrain.

Come join us for some work on the trails at Mt. Airy! Should be perfect weather for it and 'tis the season for trail building so let's get some good stuff done! 

Friends of French Park (Cincinnati Parks Advisory Council or CPAC) is working closely with the Cincinnati Parks Conservation & Land Management Team on forest restoration. One of the first things that has been identified as a priority is trail clearance. This involves cutting back invasive plants such as honeysuckle, privet, and burning bush and treating the stumps. 

Join members of Friends of Kennedy Heights Park, Kennedy Heights Community Council, Friends of French Park, and Pleasant Ridge Community Council as we learn about and improve Kennedy Heights Park.

Our focus will be more on increasing our understanding of all the plants and animals that live in our parks rather than focusing on a few invasive plants that need to be removed (we will still remove them).