[MAIPC] Research funding request

[Kathy Daniel]

>> From: Kathy Daniel <kdaniel20816 at gmail.com>
>> Date: April 16, 2019 at 11:17:02 AM EDT
>> To: assistance at vanhollen.senate.gov
>> Cc: maipc at lists.maipc.org, Marc.Imlay at pgparks.com, Frey Mark <mark_frey at nps.gov>
>> Subject: Research funding request
>> 
>> Dear Chris,
>>  
>> Please make a funding request for a pathogen quarantine facility for research on effective, host specific, biological control of Lesser Celandine (fig buttercup, http://www.namethatplant.net/mobile/article.shtml?which=article_ficaria). I think USDA is the appropriate agency to do this work, possibly BLM. If something can be done to ban the sale of Lesser Celandine by the nursery sector, please do it! It is banned in several states, including Maryland, but a national ban would be better.
>> 
>> Lesser Celandine, which is a non-native, invasive species, does so much harm to the environment, becoming the only plant along flat areas next to aquatic habitat, that the environmental impact is critical to about ten percent of the environment across half of the United States. 
>> 
>> For 12 years I have been pulling out the invasive, non-native garlic mustard weed along a stretch of the Potomac near my house in Brookmont (between C&O Canal Lock House 5 and the head of the whitewater feeder canal). Many native wild flowers are coming back, but Lesser Celandine is still the dominant species along the river. If it could be eliminated there would be an explosion of native species. The photo below [removed for MAIPC email due to size limitations] shows packera aurea (golden ragwort), bulbous cress, and trout lilies that are ready to spread, if given the chance. 
>> 
>> Sincerely yours, 
>> 
>> Kathy Daniel 
>> 110 Valley Road
>> Bethesda ("Brookmont"), MD 20816
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