[MAIPC] Penn State student group looking for volunteer opportunities

[Art Gover]

I have forwarded this post to folks with the student chapter of the Society for Ecological Restoration, and to the person at the Penn State Arboretum coordinating an invasive removal/restoration project (which has logged 600+ hours of invasive removal in 2015/16).

In addition, the Arboretum has an ecological restoration volunteer group (https://arboretum.psu.edu/involvement/volunteer/opportunities/).

Be well.

Art

Penn State Wildland Weed Management
116 ASI Building
University Park, PA  16802

(814) 863-9904
(814) 863-7043 FAX
http://plantscience.psu.edu/wildland

> On Feb 6, 2016, at 02:43, Imlay, Marc <Marc.Imlay at pgparks.com> wrote:
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> Can anyone recommend a good invasive plant removal program near Penn State for Lisa to contact?
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> 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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> 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
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> 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?
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> Thanks,
> Scott
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> Scott J. Cameron                                                 
> President
> Reduce Risks from Invasive Species Coalition
> 703 909 2880 | Scott.Cameron at rrisc.org | rrisc.org
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>  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
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> 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. 
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> 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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