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Global Invasive Species Team listserve digest #028 Tue, 13 Apr 1999 10:45:11 -0700 (PDT) --CONTENTS-- 1. Weed survey follow-up 2. Honeysuckle-Rose control 3. Do you need clean seed? 4. Meeting schedules for Exotic Pest Plant Councils --------------------------------------- 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?!). :) --------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------- 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. |
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