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Maritimers,
As some may recall, ever since I first found invasive European Reed
(Phragmites australis ssp australis) at Chatham, NB, in 2001, I've been
trying alarm Maritimers about the threat this invader poses to coastal
(and inland) ecology, so that it can be controlled early on, when the
stands are still small and scattered. -
http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.ca/2010/10/view-from-beausejour.html
- or look at everything in our blog at
http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.ca/search?q=phragmites
In Ontario, where the invader spread like wildfire through the 1980s and
1990s, action is now beginning to be taken by cutting and herbiciding
stands in wetlands and along highways, and there's even more control
effort in the States, where the problem (unrecognized at the time) began
in the 1940s and 1950s.
Anamika Ray is doing her Masters research on “the technical efficacy and
_social opinions_ on herbicide use as a best management practice for
controlling Phragmites,” at the University of Toronto.
She has an online survey of knowledge & opinions on Invasive Phragmites
which she'd appreciate having filled out by as wide a range of people as
possible - https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/M8MZZ8N - and she'd very much
appreciate Maritime participation in this.
fred.
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Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad
Fragile Inheritance Natural History
Mudpuppy Night in Oxford Mills - http://pinicola.ca/mudpup1.htm
'Daily' Paintings - http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/
4 St-Lawrence Street Bishops Mills, RR#2 Oxford Station, Ontario K0G 1T0
on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W
(613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> http://pinicola.ca/
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