[MAIPC] Penn State student group looking for volunteer opportunities

[Richard Gardner]

I would contact the Keystone Trails Association.  In the spring the Appalachian Trail Conservancy is doing the Garlic Mustard Challenge.  Contact Marian Orlousky for information.

Any of the parks around Penn State will probably have ample garlic mustard to pull in a couple months.

                                                                                        Richard Gardner

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On Sat, 2/6/16, Imlay, Marc <Marc.Imlay at pgparks.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [MAIPC] Penn State student group looking for volunteer    opportunities
 To: "maipc at lists.maipc.org" <maipc at lists.maipc.org>, "KaeserL at mail.nih.gov" <KaeserL at mail.nih.gov>
 Date: Saturday, February 6, 2016, 2:43 AM
 
 
 
  
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
   
 Can anyone recommend a good invasive
 plant removal program near Penn State for Lisa to
 contact? 
    
 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 
    
    
 
 
 From: scott.cameron at rrisc.org
 [mailto:scott.cameron at rrisc.org]
 
 
 Sent: Friday, February 05, 2016 11:45 PM
 
 To: Imlay, Marc <Marc.Imlay at pgparks.com>
 
 Cc: KaeserL at mail.nih.gov
 
 Subject: Penn State student group looking for
 volunteer opportunities 
 
 
    
 
 Marc, 
 
 
 My friend Lisa, copied above, has a
 daughter at Penn State involved in a group that might be
 looking for an invasive plant removal service project. 
 Can you provide some guidance or a referral through the
 MAIPC? 
 
 
   
 
 
 Thanks, 
 
 
 Scott 
 
 
   
 
 
 Scott J.
 Cameron                                                 
 
 
 
 President 
 
 
 Reduce Risks from Invasive Species
 Coalition 
 
 
 703 909 2880 | 
 Scott.Cameron at rrisc.org | rrisc.org 
 
 
   
 
 
 RRISC is a 501(c)(3) Tax
 Deductible Charitable Organization 
 
 
   
 
 
  
    
 
 
  From: Imlay, Marc
 
 
 Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2016 10:04 AM
 
 To: Westby, Brooke <Brooke.Westby at pgparks.com>;
 Simmonds, Tanya <Tanya.Simmonds at pgparks.com>
 
 Subject: RE: PRO Hours Work Days as of 11
 2015 
    
 I will be giving a training session
 for staff at Clearwater Nature Center on Thursday at 10 am
 for Winter Invasive  plants. I completed a preliminary
 survey on Dec 31.
  
 A good January project is to remove
 the vertical vine component of Japanese honeysuckle up the
 trees. Volunteers love each tree
  they just saved. And they are easy to find in Winter. A
 regionally dominate  invasive plant species in forested
 areas is Japanese honeysuckle. However, unlike other
 regionally dominate Japanese Stiltgrass and Wavyleaf
 Basketgrass species, it is easy to greatly
  reduce.  
 
 
 
 
 Method.
 Pull out Japanese honeysuckle by the roots in Winter
 wherever we see it up in the trees, aim the roots upward and
 tie them in place. A few have to be
 cut-stumped. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 The
 absence of free Winter light energy causes the trailing
 horizontal vines to decline precipitously the next
 year.  
  
 
 
 
 
 Thus we
 control 50-80% of the honeysuckle with 10% 
 
 
 
 
 of the
 effort to control all of it and minimal soil
 disturbance.  
  
 
 
 
 
  Do
 not pull it out of the trees and watch for native
 vines 
 
 
 
 
 (moonseed, trumpet vine, native grape etc.). This
 method greatly reduces spraying requirements or pulling the
 horizontal component. 
 
 
 
 
    
 
 
 
 
 
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