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Photo courtesy of Claire Todd Dear Pierce County Surface Water Management Division, Imagine if all of Clover Creek looked like this restored area, if all its concrete lining was torn up, its natural curves restored, and its native plants brought back. Native marine plants and wildlife would come back, and perhaps the salmon too one day. In addition, a winding, tree-shrouded creek making its way through the county, would be a reminder to all those that drive and walk past it of Pierce County’s

Photo by Claire Todd Dear Pierce County, The management of invasive species is a key component when developing restoration sites in an attempt as a means to re-establish the native plant species. From our work in my Environmental 350 course at PLU, we discovered that herbicides are heavily used to diminish the invasive plant population. They are efficient and cost effective. However, the application of herbicides have unintentional environmental risks: they are toxic to applicators and they