[MAIPC] wlbg: Problem with removal in seed

[Circe, Ron]

I use the vinegar (household strength ) with Epsom salt and Dawn for LOTS of our plants here at BRNP. It works quite well! We love this stuff and no license required!!!

Goats are very good too but in my experience they are not favorable to Microstegium - not sure how much they like wlbg??


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> On Nov 27, 2015, at 9:09 AM, Richard Gardner <rtgardner3 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Does vinegar, either kitchen or horticultural strength work on the plants and seeds?  What about running sheep or goats through an area to collect seeds before curry combing them on site?  Or perhaps wearing clothing for the purpose of picking up seeds?  Or a shag covered lawn roller for the same purpose in a contained area?
> 
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> On Fri, 11/27/15, Kathy Michels <kathleen.michels at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> Subject: Re: [MAIPC] wlbg: Problem with removal in seed
> To: ialm at erols.com, "ialm at erols.com" <ialm at erols.com>, jil_swearingen at nps.gov, maipc at lists.maipc.org, invasives at listserv.umd.edu, cbargero at uga.edu, carol_disalvo at nps.gov, marneyb at earthlink.net, pangonid at gmail.com, ron.circe at loudoun.gov, halforden at gwmail.gwu.edu, elainenak at gmail.com
> Date: Friday, November 27, 2015, 8:22 AM
> 
> One real problem perhaps
> unique to wlbg is that the very act of removing it while in
> seed inevitably spreads it to where it was  not before via
> those removing it since the fine sticky seeds attach to
> EVERYTHING. Other than wearing tyvek  which I think pros
> are doing , or avoiding removal while in seed are best
> practices guidelines being developed? 
> 
> 
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> From: "ialm at erols.com"
> <ialm at erols.com>
> Sent: November 27, 2015 8:08:29 AM EST
> To: jil_swearingen at nps.gov,
> maipc at lists.maipc.org,
> invasives at listserv.umd.edu,
> cbargero at uga.edu, carol_disalvo at nps.gov,
> marneyb at earthlink.net,
> pangonid at gmail.com,
> ron.circe at loudoun.gov,
> halforden at gwmail.gwu.edu,
> elainenak at gmail.com
> Subject: [MAIPC] New Information?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi advocates for control of
> wavyleaf basketgrass,
> 
> Just
> a reminder.  How is current research developing on native
> biological
> controls for wavyleaf basket
> grass by researching the native basketgrass,
> which is not invasive, in North and South
> Carolina. The difficulty is
> finding someone
> who is familiar with how bad wavyleaf basket grass is,
> but
> doing the research in a state where the
> invasive has not arrived yet. It
> has covered
> thousands of acres in Patapsco Valley in Maryland forming
> a
> complete mono-culture and is considered
> our most serious invasive threats.
> Do you
> know anyone else who may be able to do this critical work.
> If so,
> thank you for passing this request
> on.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> for your work in removing Oplismenus undulatifolius from
> Maryland
> and Virginia. I learned at the Fall
> conference of the Maryland Native Plant
> Society on Sept 20, 2014, held in Cecil County
> that a very large patch was
> found nearby in
> Maryland very near Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New
> Jersey.
> It is estimated that unless we
> control it ASAP, 10-20% of the natural
> environment of one forth of the united States
> may be lost. Two methods can
> be employed:
> 
> 1. Early Detection and Rapid
> Response. Many of us are actively removing and
> facilitating removal at it's source in
> Patapsco Valley as well as surveying
> for,
> and removing it elsewhere in Virginia and Maryland.
> 
> 2. Research into effective,
> host specific, biological controls for Wavyleaf
> Basketgrass.
> 
>     a. Research at it's origin in
> Eurasia, similar to the ongoing research
> on
> Japanese Stiltgrass, Microstegium vimineum. If this stage of
> research in
> China reveals insects or
> pathogens that are evidently appropriate for
> Japanese Stiltgrass, the next stage of research
> will be to test them in
> quarantined
> conditions for host specificity on native American plants.
> The
> same procedures would be done for
> wavyleaf basketgrass, Oplismenus
> undulatifolius.
> 
>     b. Research into potential native
> biological controls for Wavyleaf
> Basketgrass. For example, native biological
> controls have been found for
> Tree of Heaven
> and Multiflora Rose. Unlike Japanese Stiltgrass, which
> has
> no other species in the genus
> Microstegium native to America, there are
> native species of the genus Oplismenus in
> America. So a biological control
> of Asian
> origin is less likely to be host specific.
> 
>     Thanks for your interest
> in research of the life cycle of the native
> Oplismenus in North and South Carolina, and
> elsewhere in America. The
> native insects and
> pathogens that prevent the native Oplismenus from being
> invasive could then be potential biological
> controls for the non-native
> Oplismenus in
> Virginia and Maryland. John Peter Thompson suggests that
> the
> research on what controls the native
> Oplismenus be done on the main patches
> as
> well as at the edges of the populations to see what keeps
> the native
> from spreading. Please share this
> request with potential researchers at
> universities, agencies and other sources. One
> chalenge is the NIMBY(not in
> my back yard)
> issue since some potential agencies and universities
> where
> the native basketgrass occurs are in
> different States than where we are
> currently
> experiencing the invasiveness of the non-native basketgrass
> and
> understand the importance of the
> research.
> 
> Marc Imlay, PhD,
> Chair, Biological control working Group
> Conservation biologist, Park Ranger Office,
> Non-native Invasive Plant
> Control
> coordinator. Marc.Imlay at pgparks.com
> (301) 442-5657 cell  Natural and Historical
> Resources Division
> The 
> Maryland-National   Capital   Park 
> and Planning Commission
> 
> 
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