[NatureNS] Fwd: Catling & company on invasive Phragmites in the Maritimes

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I have a swampy spot on my small property in Windsor where I would like to
establish native phragmites. If anyone knows of a patch nearby please reach
out.

*Dave in Curry's Corner*

David Simpson
(902) 580 8007
david.sonsimp@gmail.com


On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 9:25 PM Nick Hill <fernhillns@gmail.com> wrote:

> * Phragmites australis *ssp.* australis *occurs at various places on many
> of the 100 series highways (103, 101, 102 , 107 ). While it is good to
> eliminate the plant where feasible, there is a trade-off between the pain
> (e.g. the disturbance of herbiciding areas of the Tantramar) and the gain=
.
> From a terrestrial wetland point of view, I can't vouch for the
> biodiversity value of the Tantramar--it seems an anthropogenically
> disturbed landscape, but correct me if mistaken. There are good reasons t=
o
> eliminate *Phragmites australis *ssp.* australis *where it is scattered
> along these 100 series highways because they are small patches and condui=
ts
> to high biodiversity wetlands throughout the province...e.g. the marshes =
of
> the Musquodoboit valley or riparian marshes of SW Nova that support the
> native subspecies *americanus. *
>
> The native subspecies is more delicate, the culms are thinner-- usually
> reddish (vs. green-yellow)--and in my experience, they are most common on
> wind-exposed, lakeshore fens. While ssp americanus has a S4 ranking, I
> would say it was rare.
> Nick
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 12:13 PM Frederick W. Schueler <bckcdb@istar.ca>
> wrote:
>
>> Maritimers,
>>
>> Listening to the discussion of the Tantramar marshes on the Sunday
>> Edition yesterday, and not hearing any discussion of invasive European
>> Phragmites there, I'm forwarding this warning from 2004, and from 2010 -
>>
>> https://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/2010/10/view-from-beausejour.=
html
>> - in the hopes that there's some possibility of action.
>>
>> from the 2010 report: "This is the one place in the Maritimes where the
>> invasive European Phragmites australis subspecies australis has been
>> reported, so we are interested in seeing how conditions here compare to
>> what we'd observed elsewhere in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia... we
>> drove the busy road across the marshes both ways, waypointing stands and
>> taking representative specimens...
>>
>> "The first thing we noticed was that the stands were very distinctly
>> divided into native-like and invasive-like kinds: we counted 11 alien
>> and 7 native stands, and only 1 that we called ambiguous, though the
>> natives graded out into little whisps, and we doubtless missed some of
>> these which an observer on foot could have waypointed. The most striking
>> feature of this difference was the persistent green foliage of the
>> aliens, in contrast to the shriveled get-ready-for-winter brown of the
>> natives (one often sees that alien plants from NW Europe retain green
>> leaves far longer than native plants do).
>>
>> "Those on NatureNS will remember that throughout Nova Scotia we were
>> perplexed by the intermediacy and confusing morphology of the majority
>> of the Phragmites stands we sampled there: at Tantramar there was no
>> ambiguity, and the natives didn't look much different from the ones we
>> see in Ontario".
>>
>> Those of us in Ontario have seen how completely the invasive Phragmites
>> can take over wide areas, and really wish action could be taken in the
>> Maritimes before the task becomes impossible.
>>
>> fred.
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>>
>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>> Subject: Catling & company on invasive Phragmites in the Maritimes (&
>> Nfld)
>> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 10:39:08 -0500
>> From: Frederick W. Schueler <bckcdb@istar.ca>
>> Organization: Bishops Mills Natural History Centre
>> To: NATURENB@LISTSERV.UNB.CA <NATURENB@LISTSERV.UNB.CA>
>>
>> New Brunswickers,
>>
>> I urge you to read the appended article (which has just come out in
>> BEN), very carefully, and to take action to suppress stands of the alien
>> race. All you need to do is to drive along the eastern shore of NB, and
>> then drive along the shore roads of New Jersey (solid alien Phragmites
>> as far as the eye can see), to envisage just what you don't want your
>> province to become. The Fundy shore is more different from New Jersey,
>> so the geomorphic comparison isn't so close, but solid stands of
>> Phragmites would be equally undesireable there.
>>
>> fred.
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> BOTANICAL ELECTRONIC NEWS No. 324, March 16, 2004
>> <aceska@victoria.tc.ca>                Victoria, B.C.
>> -----------------------------------------------------------
>>   Dr. A. Ceska, P.O.Box 8546, Victoria, B.C. Canada V8W 3S2
>> -----------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> STATUS OF THE ALIEN RACE OF COMMON REED (_PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS_)
>> IN THE CANADIAN MARITIME PROVINCES
>> From:  Paul  M.  Catling*,  Gisele  Mitrow*,  Lynn Black*, Susan
>>     Carbyn**
>>     * Agriculture and AgriFood Canada,
>>     Environmental Health, Biodiversity,
>>     Saunders Bldg., C.E.F., Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0C6
>>     catlingp@agr.gc.ca
>>     **Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
>>     Environmental Health, Biodiversity
>>     32 Main Street, Kentville, Nova Scotia B4N 1J5
>>
>> An alien race of Common Reed (presumably  the  European  _Phrag-
>> mites australis_ (Cav.) Trin. ssp. _australis_) has been rapidly
>> spreading  along  roadsides and invading and dominating wetlands
>> in parts of southern Ontario and Quebec since  the  early  1990s
>> (Schueler  2000a,  b,  Robichaud  & Catling 2003, Catling et al.
>> 2003). The invasion and domination of native  plant  communities
>> led  to  a  substantial  reduction  in native biodiversity (e.g.
>> Catling et al. 2003, Lavoie et  al.  2003).  Very  recently  the
>> status  of  the  alien race has been clarified in other parts of
>> Canada (e.g. M