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ON THE MOVE

ON THE MOVE. INVASIVE SPECIES -Coming to you -Highway vector -Partnerships. INVASIVE or NOXIOUS WEED?. INVASIVE PLANTS : Aggressive nonnatives NOXIOUS WEEDS are aggressive nonnatives that threaten: agriculture, environment, or human health. On County, State or Federal

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ON THE MOVE

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  1. ON THE MOVE INVASIVE SPECIES -Coming to you -Highway vector -Partnerships

  2. INVASIVE or NOXIOUS WEED? • INVASIVE PLANTS: Aggressive nonnatives • NOXIOUS WEEDS are aggressive nonnatives that threaten: • agriculture, • environment, or • human health. On County, State or Federal Regulatory Lists……. Poison Ivy

  3. $137,000,000,000*/yr. • ECONOMIC LOSS: • Crop yield loss • Range forage loss • Forest production loss • Tourism and recreation limited • CONTROL COST of public and private lands • Property values • ECOLOGICAL LOSS: UNKNOWN • wildlife habitat • increased wildfire losses • biodiversity and endangered species • * Cornell University estimate, Pimentel, 1999.

  4. The Lessons of Kudzu!

  5. ON THE MOVE…highways only one of many vectors

  6. ON THE MOVE, Yellow Sweet Clover MELILOTUS OFFICINALIS

  7. ON THE MOVE, Buffelgrass Pennisetum ciliare

  8. ON THE MOVE, Sahara mustard Brassica tournefortii

  9. ON THE MOVE, Cogongrass Imperata cylindrica

  10. ON THE MOVE, Japanese stiltgrass Microstegium vimineum

  11. On the Move -Chinese Silver Grass Miscanthus sinensis

  12. ON THE MOVE - Cutleaf Teasel Dipsacus laciniatus

  13. REMEMBER! Invasive Species DO NOT RESPECT POLITICAL BOUNDARIES! Canada Thistle

  14. DOTs spread them accidentally!

  15. And DOTs Planted Them! • sweet clover • alfalfa • smooth brome • timothy • perennial rye • crownvetch AGRICULTURAL Instead of ECOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS HWY. MIX #5

  16. NOT JUST A BUNCH of WEEDS !

  17. Wildflower Mixes! in 1987

  18. Native Wildflower Mixes, 90’s

  19. PRESERVE REMNANTS

  20. WHAT DOTs CAN DO - BMPs

  21. Certify GRAVEL PITS !

  22. SPECIFY “WEED-FREE: MULCH SOIL SOD

  23. AVOID or RESTORE

  24. Kudzu planted in 1940 on 3:1 slopes DON’T PLANT THEM

  25. WEED CONTROL: I R V M CWMAs

  26. APPLIED SCIENCE • Development of affordable WEED WASHING, on market 2012

  27. EDDMapS • DISTRIBUTION • STATE and COUNTY • CURRENT • YOU CAN HELP!!!

  28. CWMAs and more: • LOCAL • STATE • INTERSTATE • INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS

  29. BLM, ODOT, & Malheur County3,686,000 acres, 2000 centerline miles DOT > truck + BLM > spray equipment + County > driver PARTNERSHIP 10 x coverage

  30. GREATER YELLOWSTONE Federal Agencies + State Agencies + Local Agencies + 11,000,000 acres PARTNERSHIP

  31. ADIRONDACK PARKINVASIVE PLANT PARTNERSHIP APIPP MOU 2001 NYSDOT, in lead ERADICATION HERE IS STILL POSSIBLE!!!

  32. PARTNERSHIPS: Georgia 2008 • Cogongrass, • Imperata cylindrica

  33. Fond du Lac Band of Chippewa • MOU signed on May 15, 2009 • Agreed to: • PRESERVE natural heritage • USE FL permit system. • NOTIFY FL about spray dates/reports • MONITOR & REPORT early • MAP invasives on ROWs.

  34. AVOID DISTURBANCES! • Ditch cleaning • Scalping turf • Car crashes • Fiber optics • AND MORE>>>>>

  35. WEEDS ACROSS BORDERS OKANOGAN COUNTY, WASH DOT, and B.C.

  36. ON THE MOVE, Garlic mustard

  37. Public AWARENESS ONLY IF PEOPLE UNDERSTAND WILL THEY SUPPORT THE CONTROL OF INVASIVE PLANTS!

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