Thanks to all who answered. On Thursday, we revisited the Schuyler site. What
follows is a report to a number of folks who are directly concerned with
invasives
and a summary of our finds in Schuyler and Tompkins as well as our actions to
date,
including feeding the USDA data base. This was sent to Holly Menninger (CU),
Brent
Kinal( Heritage) and Mark Whitmore (CCE) (for pass to Meg Wilinson at DEC).
John and Sue
--
John and Sue Gregoire
Field Ornithologists
Kestrel Haven Avian Migration Observatory
5373 Fitzgerald Road
Burdett,NY 14818-9626
Website: http://www.empacc.net/~kestrelhaven/
"Conserve and Create Habitat"

It's never fun to find a new invasive but we are always looking for changes,
especially at Queen Catharine Marsh (IBA/BCA), an area we've been monitoring for
many years. Sue spotted this unusual plant while searching for odonates about
a week
ago and brought me there a day later. We then identified the plant using
Through The
Looking Glass, the Maine guide to aquatic invasives and the USDA site. No photos
were taken either here in Schuyler or at the ones we found at Fall Creek,
Tompkins
Cty. We noted that the USDA map had Tompkins listed but not Schuyler thus our
USDA
report (that is not a user friendly site!). FYI, the NY invasives site shows the
recorded Tompkins location as on the lake near the Seneca border so these in
Fall
Creek are new).

In any event we hope the Schuyler siting will be the last. On Thursday, we
revisited the QCM site and found that what we thought one plant to be as many
as 12
to 18 clumpings. It was very easy to tease each of the root clumps out and we
destroyed all that we removed. Unfortunately, someone had picked the blossoming
portion that we first saw. I can see how this one moves around so easily and
could
easily float from place to place if at all disturbed. We're pretty confident
we got
them all including all of the roots. Howevever, that's only one spot in 1000
acres
and this had to come from
someplace. We did a bino scan of the area along the creek and found no further
plants. Again, that means little as the ones we removed were partially under and
entwined with other vegetation. We just felt like we should strike while we were
seemingly dealing with one/few plants. Call it pre-emptive stewardship.

N42.38492 W76.85400

The second and third siting were in Tompkins Cty along fall creek in proximity
to
the foot bridge across from plantations. A trail runs there. On the 20th we were
chasing odes in the creek and noted the plants downstream from the dam on an
island.
There may have been more than one location. Later we found more upstream from
the
suspension bridge; these were along the bank from the coordinates given:

N42.4533 W76.45953 and N42.45506 W76.45239

Hope that helps you all.