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Global Invasive Species Team listserve digest #028
Tue, 13 Apr 1999 10:45:11 -0700 (PDT)
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1. Weed survey follow-up
2. Honeysuckle-Rose control
3. Do you need clean seed?
4. Meeting schedules for Exotic Pest Plant Councils
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1. Weed survey follow-up
From: Barry Rice (bamrice(at)ucdavis.edu)
In the next few weeks I will be contacting many of you kind souls who
completed the weed survey. Some of the surveys are missing valuable data
or may have erroneous entries (could it be true one of our states has
75,000 preserves in its care?!).
:)
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2. Honeysuckle-Rose Control
From: Edward Smith (ebsmith(at)flagstaff.az.us)
(Ed forwarded this mail to us. Does anyone have suggestions?)
I am the chair of a committee charged with overseeing a 200+ oldgrowth
bottomland hardwood forest preserve in the city of Evansville, IN. We are
beginning to try to eradicate an alien vining honeysuckle and multiflora
rose from the site. Currently we have spot infestations around the
perimeter, and about 20 to 40 acres of heavily infested scrubby secondary
forest growth on the southwest side of the preserve. I would greatly
appreciate any advice from any readers who have worked with or know how to
tackle situations like this. Should we hand-remove aboveground biomass?
hand-remove and spray with RoundUp? Another chemical? How should regrowth
be controlled? Ideas for dealing with a site which is virtually nothing
but honeysuckle?
Dr. Eric Ribbens
812 479-2029
er8(at)EVANSVILLE.EDU
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3. Do you need clean seed?
From: Jill Barbour (Barbour_Jill/r8(at)fs.fed.us)
The National Tree Seed Laboratory run by the Forest Service is expanding
into the seed testing and seed processing of native plants and endangered
plant species. If you are in need of this service you can contact us by
phone 912-751-3551 or look up our website
http://willow.ncfes.umn.edu/seed_lab/ntsl_01.htm
The seedlab has equipment to separate the seed from its seed parts and
then get rid of the debris to produce pure seed.
Jill Barbour, Germination Specialist
National Tree Seed Laboratory
(912) 751-3553
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4. Meeting schedule for Exotic Pest Plant Councils
From: Nancy Benton (nbenton(at)tnc.org)
Mid-Atlantic Exotic Pest Plant Council:
The first organizational meeting of the newly established Mid-Atlantic
Exotic Pest Plant Council was held March 5, 1999 at the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service's National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown,
West Virginia. There were 24 attendees, from a variety of organizations
and from several states. The purpose of the meeting was to identify
interest in establishing a regional exotic pest plant council and to begin
to develop its direction and focus. The meeting was chaired by Jil
Swearingen of the National Park Service. The next Mid-Atlantic EPPC
meeting will be May 13th at The Nature Conservancy in Arlington, Virginia.
Please contact Jil Swearingen (202/342-1443 x 218; Jil_Swearingen(at)nps.gov)
for more information.
Southeast Exotic Pest Plant Council:
The first annual smposium of the newly established Southeast Exotic Pest
Plant Council was held March 18-20, 1999 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The
purpose of the symposium was to provide a forum for discussion of exotic
pest plant issues throughout the southeastern United States. The keynote
address was given by Dr. Dan Simberloff, of the University of Tennesee.
Following the symposium was the first Southeast Exotic Pest Plant Council
organizational meeting, which established a Provisional Board of
Directors. Please contact Brian Bowen with the Tennesee Division of
Natural Heritage at 615/532-0436; or bblowen(at)mail.state.tn.us for more
information.