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Minnesota Conservation Corps youth volunteers spent two weeks in August pulling invasive species, mostly tansy and thistle, out of the ground on 18 different properties in the West End. The township of Schroeder was a recipient of their services, where they worked with 19 community volunteers to remove tansy from the township’s “welcome walls” alongside Highway 61. The entire group logged over 136 volunteer hours. “They got five and a half huge, heaping pickup truckloads of tansy, and Skip Lamb buried them in a deep hole he dug,” said Cook County Invasive Species Coordinator Angelique Edgerton. “They were a great bunch, and it was a lot of fun working with them.”