Cover It Up Presentations

An archive of recorded talks about Cover It Up research

MN Shade Tree Advisory Committee (Oct 2025): Buckthorn management research and practice

The Stewardship Network (November 2025): Using Plants to Control Buckthorn

The Stewardship Network (November 2025): Using Plants to Control Buckthorn


 

Using plant to control common buckthorn

Screenshot of Mike Schuster's presentation for LCCMR, Feb 1, 2022

February 1, 2022

LCCMR Lunchtime Lecture: Invasive Species

Mike Schuster is one of three featured researchers in this program produced by the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR).

 


 

Sambucus canadensis
Sambucus candadensis, photo by Cephas via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

January 31, 2022

Buckthorn Phenology and Possible Management Strategies

Mike Schuster appears on To Know the Land podcast, episode 181


 

 

The ongoing challenge of buckthorn

November 4, 2021

The Ongoing Challenge of Buckthorn, view on YouTube

Speakers: Mike Schuster and Nicholas Snavely

This event was part of "Improving Restorations," a webinar series produced by University of Minnesota Extension and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resource's Restoration Evaluation Program


 

Cover It Up: Using plants to control buckthorn

February 17, 2021

Cover It Up Science Talk & Gathering, held via Zoom


 

Cover It Up Gratitude Party, Photo by mwms1916 via Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

November 19, 2020

Cover It Up Gratitude Party & Science Talk


 

Some native shrubs can mitigate phenological advantages of invasive buckthorn

November 5, 2020

Mike Schuster presented Cover It Up findings as part of WIGL Summit 2: The Importance of Biology in Managing Woody Species (link directs to YouTube). The Woody Invasives of the Great Lakes (WIGL) Summit was part of a larger event called the Upper Midwest Invasive Species Conference (UMISC).

To hear Mike's presentation, "Some native shrubs can mitigate phenological advantages of invasive buckthorn," begin at 44:55.