[MAIPC] Update for MAIPC

[Marc Imlay]

In normal times each board member of the Mid-Atlantic Invasive Plant Council
shares an occasional update on their activities with invasive plant control.


 

I am working full time maintaining the 200 acre Ruth B. Swann Park in
Charles County in Southern Maryland. We are successfully removing all the
garlic mustard, beefsteak plant, Indian Strawberry, oriental bittersweet,
Japanese honeysuckle. Ailanthus, Japanese barberry, English Ivy, periwinkle,
ground ivy, wine berry, multiflora rose, bush honeysuckle, leatherleaf
Mahonia, Fig buttercup, and privets. The one species we are not successful
with is Japanese Stilt grass. Not many volunteers are joining because of the
pandemic. When they do help we keep 6 feet physical distancing. The
volunteers are thrilled to see the native biological diversity in the park. 

 

We are all on the lookout for any massive decline of any invasive species.
Two such  impacts of a potential bio control of Japanese stilt grass
occurred in Swann Park a decade ago but were not repeated in the following
years.  Speaking of bio controls, Mile -a -minute was permanently eradicated
in Swann Park a decade ago. It has not returned from outside the park
because the bio control has caused its great decline everywhere else. I
remind my colleagues across the region to report any massive impact on an
invasive species, and to report it if found, as was done with aphids found
on garlic mustard recently. 

 

Marc Imlay

Board member MAIPC

 

 

 

 



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