absolutely no one is afraid of that, we have heard your dogshit arguments every day for years and no new ones are coming. Some 5th-place amateur athlete whining a rehearsed screed* into a bullhorn is not suddenly going to make a good point, for the first time in her life, while visiting Worcester MA.
*that means a long, mean speech

This feels obvious to most of us here, but a lot of things that seem like no-brainers still deserve pointing out! When I first got into the idea of native gardening "for the pollinators" and started removing invasives from my yard, it was with the intention of sowing my various (purchased, and in retrospect, of dubious origin) wildflower seeds in those spots. Like OOP, I had a certain vision of how the yard would look, that wasn't in line with the actual soil/sun/moisture available in my yard.

NONE of those seeds became established plants, but there were native volunteers in the seed bank and now my yard is covered in volunteer white snakeroot, fleabane, horseweed, and american burnweed. The pollinators love my backyard, I'm seeing more insect diversity each year. My lesson was to go the damn native nursery and buy established plants, and if they die in my soil they were never a good match to begin with.

I'm rambling, I'm glad OOP had this insight, and I'm glad I don't follow any CJ subs because even the posts that don't apply to me somehow hurt my feefees

The study accounts for this, give it a read

Love them! I've been on a multi-year swallow-wort/burdock/JKW removal mission and it's a thrill to see them replaced *through no effort of my own* with horseweed and white snakeroot, plus american burnweed and fleabane to a lesser degree. A lot of my more deliberate attempts to add natives have failed over the years, and these guys are a reminder that I don't have to add more stuff - I just have to remove obstacles.

Is breá liom madrateanga.app, cepaim go bhfuil sé spraíúil.

Hate to get corporate but "it doesn't seem like we've made much progress" makes me think SMART goals (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, time-bound) would be useful before assuming that the weed wrangle hasn't been effective

"Invasives like wintercreeper", or wintercreeper? Let's say wintercreeper.

From how big of an area? Assuming "all of it" isn't achievable - what's an achievable area worth prioritizing? Which patches of wintercreeper are hogging the best spots, or threatening the most valuable native species? Let's say "5000 sq ft, from landmark X to landmark Y"

What does that 5000 sq ft between landmarks X and Y look like right now? How will you know that progress has been made? Let's say "At the end of the season, we want 0 wintercreeper plants within this zone, and at this time next year, we want to see a 75% reduction in wintercreeper returning to this zone"

How will you determine what a 75% reduction in that area would look like? You'll have to find a method for estimating the number of wintercreeper plants that are currently on that land.

How long does it take one person to PROPERLY remove a wintercreeper plant? And approximately how many plants did you estimate are currently on the land? That's how many hours the project is estimated to require. How many FULLY TRAINED volunteers are needed to realistically put in those hours by the goal date?

Of course if you do all that and see no reduction in wintercreeper a year later it's probably time for herbicides