Everglades Buffer Strip at Holiday Park
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Griffin Road and U.S. Highway 27
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
The Everglades buffer strip demonstration site is nearly 105 acres of dense melaleuca and other invasive plants, such as Australian pine and Brazilian pepper, located along U.S. Highway 27 in Broward County.
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Chemical Treatments 
About 50 acres along Route 27 received aerial chemical treatments. Four separate plots and nine subplots each received a different herbicide or mix of herbicides as follows:
Mechanical Treatments 
Almost 15 acres received mechanical treatments as follows:
| Acreage treated |
Type of Treatment |
|---|---|
| 6.2 |
Leveled and chipped using a Barko chipper.
The mulch remains on the site. |
| 4.6 |
Leveled and stacked using a feller-buncher. |
| 4.0 |
Standing trees chipped using a brontosaurus.
The mulch remains on the site. |
Biological Control Treatments 
We released melaleuca psyllids (Boreioglycapsis melaleucae) on 0.34 acres. Melaleuca weevils are present here naturally as a result of earlier releases elsewhere.
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