[MAIPC] FW: Research funding request

[Marc Imlay]

How are we all doing at facilitating existing legislation being used for research funding for a host specific, effective biocontrol of Fig Buttercup? Thank you Kathy.

 

Marc Imlay, PhD, 

Chair, MAIPC Biological Control Working Group 

Natural Places Committee Chair, Maryland Sierra Club

Conservation Biologist, Park Ranger Office, Non-native Invasive Plant Control Coordinator. 

Natural and Historical Resources Division

The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission

 

 

From: Kathy Daniel <kdaniel20816 at gmail.com <mailto:kdaniel20816 at gmail.com> >
Date: April 16, 2019 at 11:17:02 AM EDT
To: assistance at vanhollen.senate.gov <mailto:assistance at vanhollen.senate.gov> 
Cc: maipc at lists.maipc.org <mailto:maipc at lists.maipc.org> , Marc.Imlay at pgparks.com <mailto:Marc.Imlay at pgparks.com> , Frey Mark <mark_frey at nps.gov <mailto: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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