A bunch of trees on Haverford Ave along the train tracks are being attacked by climbing vines. Much of it is english ivy, but there are other types of vegetation here too. This property is across from Narberth township parks, but appears to be Septa property based on google maps (meaning it isn't well maintained). In prior years, some maintenance of a walking trail had been pursued, but on this round of observation, it seemed overgrown.
Going after a basic remediation, we started with the trees at the end of the train platform...
... and worked our way down the street.
This one area by the first culvert was tricky. It seemed that someone in the past had done the same thing, but missed the vine between the trunk and the rock wall. It took some work to get the right angles to cut underneath and along the tree without cutting the tree itself, but we think we got through it. (We'll know when spring rolls around!)
There's still quite a stretch of trees still remaining in this strip needing help, but after several blocks of work, we had to call it a day!
