A graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, Jenna has a degree in broadcast and digital journalism and a minor in Spanish (she's fluent!). Before heading to Utah, Jenna worked in Green Bay so she's no stranger to the cold and snow.
“My daughter was playing with a friend in a neighbor's yard and she just broke out in a hive-type rash pretty immediately,” she said. “When we see it, we just don't touch it. We have it even in our yard, and you just see it all over the neighborhood, and then you definitely see it all over the trails.”
The Division of Wildlife Resources describes the invasive plant as a dangerous, noxious weed that outcompetes our native plants and degrades wildlife habitats. “It was planted as kind of an ornamental plant in a lot of homeowners’ yards here in Utah, but since then, unfortunately, it has spread into some of our wild lands and it's become harmful for our environment,” said DWR spokeswoman Faith Heaton Jolley.“We were, like, physically pulling these weeds out by hand digging them up,” said Heaton Jolley. “But because the seeds persist in the soil for, like, eight years, the areas that we had pulled, the next year would just grow back.
The DWR started spraying in Parleys Canyon, then expanded to Millcreek. They plan to wrap everything up by June. “I would just hope that they've been doing enough research to know that it wouldn't impact, like, the amazing sage we have in these hills, or, like, the scrub oak and things like that,” said Hesley.“We've been using these type of chemical treatments in different parts of Utah for a long time and we haven't seen any negative impacts to the environment and also to our native wildlife in those areas,” she said.“We have got to change our ways with this land,” she said.
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