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*Schedule for Pickup/Chipping Several days before the planned pickup event, work out a detailed map of your neighborhood so that the tree service has an easy flow chart. If you have businesses with parking restrictions. schedule the business area first for pickup. If you have other community facilities. check with them 24 hours before the chipping event to see if there are any times you should avoid chipping near their property. We encountered a funeral at a church across from one pickup site, so we changed the pickup schedule at the last minute. That way we did nok CauG i a noise disturbance during the funeral service. The day before the pickup, drive this route to see if there are any conflicts or additional sites to add. Wood Chip Disposal We identified one site in our neighborhood for this cleanup where we could store and use the chips. At this point I recommend the chips only be used for trail and related purposes. I don't recommend them for general landscape mulching, even though they are a hardwood chip and will last longer. I'm hoping to get some research scheduled to study if indeed the seeds will sprout from these chips. If you don't have a chip disposal site in your neighborhood. you should not plan on getting 50 properties done each day. You will have to plan travel time for the tree service to haul and dump full truckloads of chips.. During our roundup, we produced 100 cubic yards of buckthorn chips- a full 4 truckloads that were dumped and used for trails within our neighborhood community gardens. :Stump Treatments/Follow Up You must make sure that you not only cut down the buckthorn. but also kill it either mechanically or chemically. For chemical treatments, it is critical that the stumps be treated once they are cut, ideally the same day, but often you can still effectively treat within 24-48 hours of cutting if temperatures are above freezing. Check the MDA sheet about treatment options. Our neighborhood offered a special service. If • participants cut down their buckthorn in a specific 24 hour time period on one weekend and they requested stump assistance, their stumps were treated. One volunteer who is a certified pesticide applicator volunteered her time to visit these properties and treat their stumps with glyphosate (Roundup.) There are 3-4 mechanical methods for killing buckthorn. You can physically dig it or pull it up (works on smaller size materials). However. you then have prepared a nice seed bed for next season. See the attached sheet provided to residents of St. Anthony Park for their first private property roundup on how to kill the stumps/roots.