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Index of Subjects Go away with your herbicides. Douglas On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 04:00:55PM -0500, Frederick W. Schueler wrote: > 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. > ------------------------------------------------------------ > 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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