[MAIPC] FW: Winter time

[Marc Imlay]

Marc, I’m glad you sent out this email. 

It is exactly what I feel. 

What I teach. 

What I try to convey = get people to understand the problem and allow them to help = empower them and give them encouragement!

Then they come to LOVE each tree they saved, and want to save more. 

This can give people hope in these pretty dark times.

Thanks.

Carole

 

Carole Bergmann

Forest Ecologist/Field Botanist

Maryland National Capital Park & Planning Commission

 

 

 

Just a reminder, a good project for the warmer days of Winter, such as one day last week, is to remove the vertical vine component of Japanese honeysuckle up the trees. Volunteers love each tree they just saved.

 

Marc Imlay, PhD, Chair, MAIPC Biological control working Group Conservation biologist, 

Park Ranger Office, Non-native Invasive Plant Control coordinator.  <mailto:Marc.Imlay at pgparks.com> Marc.Imlay at pgparks.com

(301) 442-5657 cell  Natural and Historical Resources Division

The  Maryland-National   Capital   Park  and Planning Commission

 

 

From: Marc Imlay [mailto:ialm at erols.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2016 7:32 PM
To: 'Kent L Hibben' <KentL.Hibben at gmail.com <mailto:KentL.Hibben at gmail.com> >
Subject: FW: Moyaone Public Affairs Bulletin 14 Dec 2016

 

If Clearwater Nature Center and Port Tobacco River Conservancy can do it so can Mayaone.

 

I led a survey and training session for staff at Clearwater Nature Center a year ago for Winter Invasive  plants. 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. The volunteers removed all of it in the 100 acre Nature Center over 5 years. 

 


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.

They do not grow back up the trees if they are dug out but do grow back up if merely cut.

 

From: Julie Simpson [mailto:jsimpson at porttobaccoriver.org] 
Mr. Snow,

PTRC President Tina Wilson and I visited the Port Tobacco Courthouse area on Monday to see whether there was a site suitable for a honeysuckle control project. We identified a wooded area near Burch House that extends south parallel to Chapel Point Rd that is infested with honeysuckle that Marc thought could be controlled by about 10 volunteers. The technique would be to identify honeysuckle that is climbing trees and dig up the roots using a trowel, or for larger plants, cut the stem with a saw and apply glyphosate. Marc would be the person applying the pesticide and he is certified to do so in Charles County. We would supply all equipment and there would be no cost to the county from the project.

We have identified January 7 and 21 as dates for the project, from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm, weather permitting. Please let us know if you have any thoughts about this proposal.

-- 

Julie Simpson
Vice President
Port Tobacco River Conservancy
(301) 934-2025

 

Marc Imlay, PhD, Chair, Biological control working Group Conservation 

biologist, Park Ranger Office, Non-native Invasive Plant Control 

coordinator.  <mailto:Marc.Imlay at pgparks.com> 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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