Marc, I can't tell you if this is so or not. But maybe someone else out there has more input and insights. Betsy Betsy Lyman Liaison, Northeast Exotic Plant...
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Jil_Swearingen@...
May 5, 2008 2:37 pm
Hi, Please come hear Dr. Doug Tallamy speak on "Native Plants, Insects, and the Future of Biodiversity in Suburbia" for the Entomological Society of ...
3532
Fellows, Meghan
Meghan.Fellows@...
May 5, 2008 5:15 pm
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...
3533
treekat_2
May 5, 2008 8:48 pm
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...
3534
Phytodoer@...
May 6, 2008 12:51 pm
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...
3535
Phytodoer@...
May 6, 2008 4:22 pm
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...
3536
Kyde, Kerrie L.
kkyde@...
May 7, 2008 3:37 pm
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...
3537
Bravo, Melissa
mbravo@...
May 7, 2008 9:13 pm
REANNOUNCEMENT - NORTHEASTERN WEED SCIENCE SOCIETY NOXIOUS AND INVASIVE VEGETATION SHORT COURSE All, The short course pre-registration list is filling fast and...
3538
Ruth Douglas
cvilleruth@...
May 8, 2008 7:11 pm
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...
3539
steveyoung@...
stevey9
May 9, 2008 2:43 am
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...
3540
Jianqing ding
dingjianqing
May 9, 2008 6:50 am
FYI An International Workshop and Training Course on Invasive Species, Wuhan, China, October 26-31, 2008. The main purposes are to provide the participants ...
3541
Betsy_Lyman@...
May 13, 2008 9:38 pm
... 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...
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Jessica DiCicco
dicheeks
May 14, 2008 5:42 pm
Please circulate to anyone that may be interested in this great opportunity to look at ecological restoration throughout NYC. Please have any interested...
3543
Nancy Beaubaire
Beaubaire@...
May 15, 2008 3:18 pm
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...
3544
Marc Imlay
ialm@...
May 16, 2008 10:53 am
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...
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Stephen Hiltner
stevehiltner
May 16, 2008 3:33 pm
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,...
3546
Rochelle Bartolomei
rockypandora
May 17, 2008 2:12 pm
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...
3547
steveyoung@...
stevey9
May 17, 2008 4:33 pm
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...
3548
Carlos
carlosstern@...
May 17, 2008 8:01 pm
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 ...
3549
Patrick Kelly
chesapeakeca...
May 19, 2008 12:10 pm
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...
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John Ambler
jr2ambler
May 19, 2008 1:34 pm
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...
3551
MALawler@...
mal22202
May 19, 2008 1:48 pm
From a 2005 MA-EPPC conference...you may try to contact these researchers. Concurrent Session 10. Recent Findings on Long Term Invasive Earthworm Control...
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Suzan Campbell
campbellsl@...
May 19, 2008 2:24 pm
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...
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Rolf Utegaard
BIGUTE-HORT@...
May 19, 2008 2:27 pm
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...
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Stephen Hiltner
stevehiltner
May 19, 2008 4:12 pm
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...
3555
steveyoung@...
stevey9
May 19, 2008 4:37 pm
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...
3556
Phytodoer@...
May 19, 2008 6:34 pm
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...
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Dennis Burton
dburton@...
May 20, 2008 7:07 pm
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...
3558
carol_disalvo@...
May 20, 2008 8:00 pm
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 ...
3559
John Ambler
jr2ambler
May 22, 2008 1:30 am
... 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...
