[MAIPC] Update for MAIPC

[Rod Simmons]

Great work, my friend.  We are trying for the same here in the City of Alexandria, Virginia.

The covid -19 crisis has derailed most of our volunteer group efforts, but allowed me and others to work in small, socially distant groups in removing large amounts of non-native invasive plants.

Plus, our exceptional specialty contractor IPC - everyone else’s too - has been treating the material inappropriate for volunteer control.

I wish I had something to report as to massive decline of an invasive species, but will keep vigilant as to anything to report.

This season, because of the quiet time afforded by the pandemic, we have removed countless parent plants and seeds of noxious weeds - by the cubic yard.

All the best,

Rod

On Jun 14, 2020, at 11:22 PM, Marc Imlay <ialm at erols.com<mailto:ialm at erols.com>> wrote:

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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