FACT Volunteers Attack Invasive Plants.     January 2006   Boyer Park Nature Wetlands Honeysuckle Cleanup II       Twenty brave FACT members spent a cold and rainy January day at Boyer Park Wetlands in Westerville removing more noxious honeysuckle and multiflora rose shrubs. Cleanup continued at the sight to allow construction equipment, and eventually a trail, to access the area where vernal wetlands will be created.  Vernal wetlands usually occur in wooded areas and visibly hold water only in the spring.  Because of their small size and sheltered locations, they provide excellent habitat for wildlife such as small frogs.      Susan Kamps Takes a Swing.     Roberta Cook Looks Over a Recalcitrant Grape Vine.               Joe Bonnell takes on a Grapevine. This cleanup follows FACT's major accomplishment of  negotiating this project as local mitigation from a company that filled a wetland near Alum Creek for development. Companies are required by law to mitigate (or compensate) for damages to wetlands and streams by creating them somewhere else, usually a wetlands bank far from the watershed and community where wetlands were lost.   Because of FACT's work and partnership with the City of Westerville, however, mitigation for one lost wetland in the watershed will be happening closer to home at Boyer Park!    Mark Dilley, the leader of this volunteer effort, anticipates moving forward with the excavation through coordination with the Westerville Department of Parks and Recreation.   Vernal Pool North of the Property Provides Inspiration.           More Vernal Inspiration.         Return Home