[MAIPC] Bring on the Invasives Robots!

Kathi Mestayer kwren at widomaker.com
Fri Jul 29 06:26:19 PDT 2016


Business model!!!!!!


Kathi Mestayer
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Mac Mestayer

> On Jul 29, 2016, at 9:21 AM, Swearingen, Jil <jil_swearingen at nps.gov> wrote:
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> Steve,
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> You're Brilliant!! I love your idea!!  I think programming invasibots to spritz cut stems with glyphosate might be possible too. Combining this with drones to detect and map targeted invasive species would be pretty amazing. We need more creative thinking like this.
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> Jil
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> Jil
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> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 8:07 PM, frazmo <frazmo at gmail.com <mailto:frazmo at gmail.com>> wrote:
> I've been thinking for a long time about how technology could help us fight invasive plants, and I finally wrote up some thoughts and posted them on my Plantwhacker.com blog. If you're interested in reading and thinking about "invasibots" please feel free to take a look at:
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> http://www.plantwhacker.com/2016/07/invasibots-unnatural-enemies-for.html <http://www.plantwhacker.com/2016/07/invasibots-unnatural-enemies-for.html>
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> Comments welcome! Cheers,
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> Steve Young (the Arlington VA one)
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