 At Audiology Associates of Prestonsburg, you can live your life the way you want and find the freedom of better hearing. You'll experience patient care that is specific to you with exceptional follow-up care that ensures your hearing and balance needs are being met. Audiology Associates at 1428 Northlake Drive in Prestonsburg. Monday, April 11th, Pikeville Outdoor Recreation will be hosting a rare native tree planting at the Bob Amos multi-use trail. One of the goals that I intend to complete at the Bob Amos trail system is to eliminate some of the invasive species that are located throughout the trail system, which is common in areas that have disturbance. They just basically outcompete any native vegetation and just prevent native education from growing and just the typical regeneration of those species and it creates a monoculture of invasive species and decreases overall diversity. Pikeville Outdoor Recreation is currently focused on eliminating the two main invasive species on the trail system, autumn olive and tree of heaven. Both species grow quickly, thrive in disturbed areas and kill native vegetation. So we'll be planting a variety of trees that we got from the Pike County Conservation District. They're very seedling trees and we'll be planting those along the trail system and there's quite a process to planting a tree to where it has a high likelihood of survival. I'm not just going to dig in a hole and throwing a tree in it and going with it, you know, all wild, wild deer and of course you've got mice, bowls, everything is going to try to nip and eat those young seedling trees so they will be protected. The trees will be planted with filter fabric below to restrict competition from other plants while the seedlings grow roots and become established. Without help from us, the native vegetation stands no chance and it's important to keep the diversity in native vegetation because that's where our wildlife utilizes for food and it goes all the way down to insects up to mammals so it is quite important. Some of the species being planted include bald cypress, wild plum, hazelnut and white pine. To register, contact PJ Collins at 606-794-9911. For Mountain Top News, I'm Breanna Robinson.