Hi, Please come hear Dr. Doug Tallamy speak on "Native Plants, Insects, and the Future of Biodiversity in Suburbia" for the Entomological Society of ...
Jil_Swearingen@...
May 5, 2008 2:37 pm
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I'm pleased to update you on the Mapping the Mid-Atlantic workshop. A workshop flier and registration form can be found on-line at our web page...
Fellows, Meghan
Meghan.Fellows@...
May 5, 2008 5:15 pm
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USDA Forest Service, Forest Inventory and Analysis, Northern Region is continuing to accept applications for contract field Botanist or Ecologist, GS-7 or GS-9...
Dear forest pest mavens: Ned Tisserat of Colorado State reports a new and serious threat to yet another hardwood tree of the eastern deciduous forest - black...
Phytodoer@...
May 6, 2008 12:51 pm
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Dear EPPC friends, I attach two articles from NJ publications on "rock snot", the freshwater algae that is coating trout streams with ikky goo - at least in...
Phytodoer@...
May 6, 2008 4:22 pm
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Hi, I couldn't confirm the presence of Didymo in Maryland until this press release was out, but it is indeed here, as most folks have already heard. Here's...
Kyde, Kerrie L.
kkyde@...
May 7, 2008 3:37 pm
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REANNOUNCEMENT - NORTHEASTERN WEED SCIENCE SOCIETY NOXIOUS AND INVASIVE VEGETATION SHORT COURSE All, The short course pre-registration list is filling fast and...
Bravo, Melissa
mbravo@...
May 7, 2008 9:13 pm
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Help, does anyone know how to discourage carpenter bees from excavating on my house? I really don’t want to kill them, but I don’t want them here. Someone...
Ruth Douglas
cvilleruth@...
May 8, 2008 7:11 pm
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Hi Ruth. The native bees are great pollinators; however, carpenter bees are not much loved because of their wood boring tendencies. If you wanted to attract...
FYI An International Workshop and Training Course on Invasive Species, Wuhan, China, October 26-31, 2008. The main purposes are to provide the participants ...
... For those of you working on public lands projects, this might be a good funding source (especially if you include invasive species in the materials): The...
Betsy_Lyman@...
May 13, 2008 9:38 pm
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Please circulate to anyone that may be interested in this great opportunity to look at ecological restoration throughout NYC. Please have any interested...
Bowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve Native Plant Sale Saturday, May 17 and Sunday, May 18, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. each day Invite nature into your landscapes and...
Nancy Beaubaire
Beaubaire@...
May 15, 2008 3:18 pm
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Dear Wavyleaf Basketgrass Task Force, I was at Little Paint Branch Park in Beltsville MD today, May 13, 2008. Wavyleaf Basketgrass is ready to identify on the...
Marc Imlay
ialm@...
May 16, 2008 10:53 am
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I was surprised not to find any mention of Oriental Photinia in ma-eppc postings over the past three years. It was recently pointed out to me that the large,...
I've noticed that some plants I'm familiar with are suddenly taking off and becoming aggressive after years of behaving themselves. For example I have a...
Dr. Lewis Ziska has done important work showing that some non-native invasive plants indeed respond very well to rising carbon dioxide levels, and he has...
There is probably some connection but I suspect that it's a fairly weak link because we are dealing with parts per million in terms of the change in CO2 ...
Carlos
carlosstern@...
May 17, 2008 8:01 pm
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I also don't buy the CO2 connection...I think its more likely other local environmental conditions were "right" for sudden increased growth i.e. a wet year or...
Perhaps the area has been invaded by earthworms and the increased nutrient supply has favored greater growth. This effect is much greater than effects from...
From a 2005 MA-EPPC conference...you may try to contact these researchers. Concurrent Session 10. Recent Findings on Long Term Invasive Earthworm Control...
The best source of information that I've seen so far is the University of Minnesota's Great Lakes Worm Watch at: http://www.nrri.umn.edu/worms/ Everything from...
Suzan Campbell
campbellsl@...
May 19, 2008 2:24 pm
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I doubt very much that the "sudden" spurt of spread has anything to do with either earthworms or some imaginary massive increase in CO2......The amount of CO2...
Rolf Utegaard
BIGUTE-HORT@...
May 19, 2008 2:27 pm
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I just posted photos and text about Photinia villosa, the invasive species I was mistaking for red chokeberry, at www.princetonnaturenotes.blogspot.com. It has...
Don't underestimate the CO2 issue. Dr. Ziska has found that CO2 levels are significantly higher in urbanized areas like the DC/Baltimore metro area than...
I had listed Italian Arum as invasive in Missouri years ago - based on information in the MNPS newsletter. So I am not surprised to see it starting to draw...
Phytodoer@...
May 19, 2008 6:34 pm
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John, Google "Invasive Earth worms" www.wvnps.org/earthworms.html We do management studies here with some modest success so far. It's as complex as the other...
Dennis Burton
dburton@...
May 20, 2008 7:07 pm
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I will be out of the office starting 05/20/2008 and will not return until 05/27/2008. For technical help on pest issues please call Wayne Millington ...
carol_disalvo@...
May 20, 2008 8:00 pm
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... From: Dennis Burton To: John Ambler Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 7:45 AM Subject: RE: [ma-eppc] Worms The nearest known native earthworms are in...
There was an article in the Post on SUnday about Bradford Pears. Online article has a poll to vote for new county tree, as well as a number of comments. ...