[MAIPC] Callery Pears

[Stephen Hiltner]

Callery pear is spreading like crazy along Route 1 near Princeton, NJ. As
far as I know, nothing's being done. There was an oped about Bradford Pear
in the NY Times last month that used some strange math and selective
pessimism to relieve readers of any need to act. I critiqued it at this link
<http://newscompanion.blogspot.com/2016/03/more-skewed-logic-on-invasive-species.html>
.

On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 9:51 AM, Jennifer Frum <frumjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wow, I wish they would get Virginia highways on board!
> Thanks
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> On Apr 9, 2016, at 8:52 AM, Marc Imlay <ialm at erols.com> wrote:
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> *Fortunately there is pro-environmental staff at State Highway
> Administration (SHA).*
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> *Marc Imlay, PhD *
> *Chair of the Biodiversity and Habitat Stewardship Committee for the
> Maryland Chapter of the Sierra Club.*
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> *From:* MAIPC [mailto:maipc-bounces at lists.maipc.org
> <maipc-bounces at lists.maipc.org>] *On Behalf Of *Sylvan Kaufman
> *Sent:* Saturday, April 09, 2016 7:16 AM
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> *Subject:* Re: [MAIPC] Callery Pears
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> Maryland State Highways did a big control project focused on callery pear
> along the Rt. 50 corridor between Annapolis and DC.
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> Sylvan
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> On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 10:40 PM, Ivmpartners2 <ivmpartners at gmail.com>
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> We have been controlling pear along with other invasive plants like autumn
> olive with foliar backpack treatments on electric ROW in Columbia, MD and
> Patuxent NWR.
> Rick
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> Rick Johnstone
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> > On Apr 8, 2016, at 3:26 PM, Jennifer Frum <frumjb at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hi, is anything being done about the terrible invasion of seedlings
> along highways and in any untended land?
> > Jennifer Frum
> > Arlington, VA
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