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Global Invasive Species Team listserve digest #111 Fri Dec 06 2002 - 16:52:59 PST --CONTENTS-- 1. Phragmites research on line (Nationwide, USA) 2. Sierra Club misrepresented (Florida, USA) 3. Web site news (Global) 4. News of weed expansions (Nationwide, USA) 5. On mapping Phragmites (New York, USA) 6. Networking native plant nurseries for restoration (Pennsylvania, USA) 7. ATVs and motorcycles (Montana, USA) 8. Irrigation/drainage ditches (Texas, USA) 9. Wisteria and Wineberry (North Carolina, USA) 10. Wineberry (Nationwide, USA) --------------------------------------- 1. Phragmites research on line (Nationwide, USA) From: Barry Rice (bamrice(at)ucdavis.edu) Kay Sadighi emailed WIST and told her she was pleased to have experimental proof that the Phragmites australis that she has been working to control is indeed the non-native genotype. If you want to learn more about the native genotype/non-native genotype research on this plant, look at Kristin Saltonstall's research on line at: http://hpl.umces.edu/faculty/kristin/index.html --------------------------------------- 2. Sierra Club misrepresented (Florida, USA) From: Doria Gordon (dgordon(at)tnc.org) John Ryan (Florida Chapter of the Sierra Club, Energy Committee) contacted me to convey that the North Florida Sierra Club was misrepresented in the Wall Street Journal article about Arundo donax, mentioned in digest #110 of the TNC invasive species listserve. He said, "We do not support the introduction of A. donax or any other species without a review, by IFAS (The University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences), to understand the implications of introduction." He would appreciate forwarding this information about the erroneous Wall Street Journal article to others to set the record straight. --------------------------------------- 3. Web site news (Global) From: Barry Rice (bamrice(at)ucdavis.edu) Some new highlights on the WIST web site for you to look at. **Many meetings on invasives are being organized around the USA. For news on these, look to our meetings/events web page: http://tncweeds.ucdavis.edu/meetings.html **Notes on an Australian survey, interesting if rapid weed assessments strike your fancy: http://tncweeds.ucdavis.edu/newsnotes.html **New weed control reviews or Element Stewardship Abstracts on Paulownia tomentosa (Princesstree), Lespedeza cuneata (sericea lespedeza), and Wisteria species. http://tncweeds.ucdavis.edu/esadocs.html --------------------------------------- 4. News of weed expansions (Nationwide, USA) From: Phyllis N. Windle (invasives(at)ucsusa.org) At the Union of Concerned Scientists, we are expanding a project to update data on invasive species and how effectively the US is keeping out new invaders. We are compiling a comprehensive list of invasive species that have been detected, become established, or significantly expanded their range, in the United States from January 1994-December 2001. If you have recorded any such species (of any taxon), we would appreciate receiving notification, including, scientific and common names and if possible, where the species was found, how and when it was introduced, if it is established, and a brief note as to whether and what kind of ecological, agricultural, or human impacts are expected. Please pass along any information that you have, even if you do not have all the details we requested in the above list. We would also greatly appreciate it if you could send us the names of others we should contact, including those who are doing something similar. Please send data to us at any of the below locations email: invasives(at)ucsusa.org fax: (617) 864 9405 Attention: Jason Mathers Union of Concerned Scientists Two Brattle Square Cambridge, MA 02238 --------------------------------------- 5. On mapping Phragmites (New York, USA) From: Michael Batcher (mbatcher(at)netheaven.com) I have a small contract to map changes in the extent of Phragmites australis at a national wildlife refuge on Long Island. I recall, many years ago, a similar project on the Connecticut River in CT. Do you know of any similar projects in the east? I would be interested in comparing sites and methods and such. Basically, I will be looking at historic aerials and compare those to the current extent. --------------------------------------- 6. Networking native plant nurseries for restoration (Pennsylvania, USA) From: Betsy Lyman (blyman(at)tnc.org) We are planning to meet with a number of nurseries in our state to talk about setting up a network which can respond to the plant needs of restoration and rehabilitation projects. There are often not large enough supplies of needed plant materials for projects, particularly native plants that would be appropriate for the project sites. Nurseries which would agree to respond to these needs and are willing to grow a range of plants that aren't necessarily popular with the gardening public or normally grown by nurseries in any quantity, would be organized into a network that would be made available to those doing restoration or rehab work (not only natural land managers, but DOT, landscape architects, municipalities, etc.). The network would enable these nurseries to contact each other to spread the load for a large project and/or get extra plant materials if they don't have enough supplies. At least this is the idea. The question we have is: has anyone already established something like this or is anyone aware of such a network? If so, could we get the contact information for those responsible so we could talk to them about their program(s)? --------------------------------------- 7. ATVs and motorcycles (Montana, USA) From: Dave Carr (dcarr(at)tnc.org) I'm trying to put together comments on a new travel plan for the Lewis and Clark National Forest. Unfortunately the plan is heavily weighted towards ATV and motorcycle use. Since I'd like to provide cogent comments one of the areas I would like to address is about the threat of expanding the range of weeds by ATVs. Do you know if any studies have been conducted on a national forest with regards to this question or any ATV vs. weeds, studies that you know of. --------------------------------------- 8. Irrigation/drainage ditches (Texas, USA) From: Lacey Halstead (lhalstead(at)tnc.org) I am looking for best management practices on drainage and irrigation ditches as relates to preventing spread of invasive natives and exotics. Any advice or suggestions? --------------------------------------- 9. Wisteria and Wineberry (North Carolina, USA) From: Beth Bockoven (bbockoven(at)tnc.org) Does anyone have pictures of Wisteria species or Wineberry (Rubus phoenicolasius)? I need them for an invasives species manual for volunteers. --------------------------------------- 10. Wineberry (Nationwide, USA) From: Mandy Tu (imtu(at)tnc.org) Do you know anything about Rubus phoenicolasius (wineberry, wine raspberry)? I have been unable to find any control info on it, except a brief fact sheet from the PCA Alien Working Group (with little control info). |
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