Volunteer workers remove garbage, invasive species from Boneyard
By Paul Wood
Sunday April 23, 2006
Darrell Hoemann
University of Illinois student Leonel Vazquez, left, and fellow UI student Rommel Morales clear garlic-mustard plants along the Boneyard Creek.
CHAMPAIGN – Saturday was a sunny good time for the people who cleaned the Boneyard, and the fish who live in it.
Though it might surprise some, the tiny creek is home to smallmouth bass and other species, says Tim Smith, who was doing a census while others pulled bike wheels and beer bottles out of the Boneyard.
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