A Rochester professor wants to 're-wild' the woods around the Plummer House

A Rochester professor wants to 're-wild' the woods around the Plummer House

ROCHESTER — Things took a weird turn in a volunteer effort to clear invasive plants from the woods surrounding the Plummer House. Species of trees that you wouldn’t find together in the wild had grown up in the woods surrounding the historic home and gardens. A culmination of decades of neglect, reintroduction of deer in the area, and the legacy of unique, ornamental or gift trees created two separate “novel forests” on the grounds. “A hackberry…