[MAIPC] FW: Add up Campaign final update

Thu May 5 12:46:05 PDT 2022

Does anyone have new references for biocontrol and effects on the economy? Thanks

Marc

From: Lily Fountain <lily.fountain at mdsierra.org> 
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2022 2:58 PM
To: Marc Imlay <wildmarcimlay at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Add up Campaign final update

they are old

Lily Fountain 
Chair, Maryland Sierra Club Natural  Places Committee
Sierra Club Outings leader
NAACP Lifetime Member
301-442-5854 mobile

lily.fountain at mdsierra.org <mailto:lily.fountain at mdsierra.org> 

From: wildmarcimlay at gmail.com <wildmarcimlay at gmail.com> 
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2022 1:59 PM
To: 'Lily Fountain' <lily.fountain at mdsierra.org>
Cc: wildmarcimlay at gmail.com; chuck at igc.org; 'Gail Landy' <ag7dollar at msn.com>; 'Melina Frame' <mellframe at yahoo.com>; 'Carolyn Parsa' <carolyn.parsa at mdsierra.org>
Subject: RE: Add up Campaign final update

The references are in the attachment. 

From: Lily Fountain <lily.fountain at mdsierra.org <mailto:lily.fountain at mdsierra.org> > 
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2022 11:16 AM
To: Marc Imlay <wildmarcimlay at gmail.com <mailto:wildmarcimlay at gmail.com> >
Subject: Re: Add up Campaign final update

Marc,

I don't want this letter to get lost as it has some important ideas. Is it a draft based on a previous letter? It has no links or references. The tone needs to be relatively formal for a congressional letter. I am working as fast as I can to set up the folder with files. Sending the TO DO list soon. I lost the email with the text and had to copy the Action Items from the video, which was the cause of the delay.

 Please plan to present your draft at our next meeting with both my suggestions  and Chuck's suggestions for cost figures. Please be mindful of multiple emails to the team. Your new ideas can be for the agenda of the next meeting, sent to me.  This way your valuable expertise will not be lost in a a forgotten email stream.

Thank you,

Lily

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	Lily Fountain 

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lily.fountain at mdsierra.org <mailto:lily.fountain at mdsierra.org>  

Chair, Natural Places Committee <http://www.sierraclub.org/maryland/natural-places> 

Delegate, Prince George's Sierra Club <http://Maryland>  Exec Comm, Outings Leader 

Maryland Sierra Club PO Box 278 Riverdale, MD  20738

On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 10:17 PM <wildmarcimlay at gmail.com <mailto:wildmarcimlay at gmail.com> > wrote:

Dear Senator Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman Steny Hoyer,  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris_(politician)> Andy Harris,  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Ruppersberger> Dutch Ruppersberger,  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sarbanes> John Sarbanes,  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_G._Brown> Anthony G. Brown,  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Trone> David Trone,  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kweisi_Mfume> Kweisi Mfume and  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Raskin> Jamie Raskin

The Maryland Chapter of the Sierra Club requests an additional $ one million funding be offered to biocontrol research laboratories at Universities, Federal and State agencies and the USDA.

One of our most productive activities to save our natural areas is to facilitate research that will make host specific biological controls available. Insects that consume the non-native invasive plant species can substitute for the controls where the species came from in the world. Of the 15 top non-native invasive plant species in the mid-Atlantic region five (Purple Loosestrife, Mile-a-minute, Japanese Knotweed, Pale and Black Swallow-worts, and Garlic Mustard) now have one or two non-native insects or fungi that feed on them although the permit request for garlic mustard has not been approved yet. They were brought over after being tested for host specificity in Eurasia and then tested in quarantine conditions in the United States. Typically, about 50 such bio-control agents control these species in their native countries so if one or two can control them here that is amazing. In actuality, bio-controls work about half the time reducing the invasive species to about 10% of its former abundance. The problem of bio-controls harming non-target organisms is only about 3% as frequent as before the new rules of proving host specificity went into effect about 20 years ago. Native and indigenous biocontrols are also searched for in the range of the non-native invasive species in America. 

Success stories include a native viral pathogen (rose-rosette disease), which is spread by a tiny native mite, Rose-rosette disease, native to the western U.S., that has been spreading eastwardly at a slow pace and is thought to hold the potential for eliminating multiflora rose in areas where it grows in dense patches. Tree of Heaven is an invasive non-native plant and is considered one of the top ten weeds in North America for about 200 years. A law passed in the 19th century makes it illegal to plant it in Washington, DC. A mixture of field and laboratory research shows that native and indigenous biocontrols from the new Southern part of the range are available.  The insects consist of Aculops ailanthii and Atteva punctella with various fusarium fungi co-hosts.   Here is an example of the need for research for biocontrols; Let's do the same for our invasive Japanese Stiltgrass.: Cheatgrass "has fuelled almost 80% of the largest fires in the west over the last ten years. Researchers are looking at a range of solutions including using a fungus to attack the grass seed. " The USDA biological control lab in France agreed that searching for a potential insect or pathogen to control Lesser Celandine (Fig Buttercup) is a great idea. But they just do not have the money. 

Natural Places Committee, Maryland Sierra Club

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