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The Enterprise — Michael Koff

Ready to roll: Land-clearing equipment over the next five or six months will remove black locust trees — the trunk of one is in the foreground, next to the caterpillar track — and other non-native species from 47 acres of Pine Bush Preserve. This equipment is by the intersection of Route 155 and Washington Avenue Extension. In the spring, native grasses, wildflowers, and wild blue lupine will be planted; the lupine is essential to the federally endangered Karner blue butterfly, which is being re-established in the pine bush.