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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Sierra Club Maryland Chapter,Alien Invasive [mailto:MD-CONS-INVASIVES@LISTS.SIERRACLUB.ORG] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mary Corddry<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, January 24, 2016 10:15 AM<br><b>To:</b> MD-CONS-INVASIVES@LISTS.SIERRACLUB.ORG<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [MD-CONS-INVASIVES] FW: [MAIPC] FW: [vnps-pot] Fw: A Short Summary and Call to Action for 3 Bills Related to VNPS Mission<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>Prettyboy Reservoir is becoming covered with Japanese Barberry, particularly points of land jutting into the reservoir. I'm shocked that it is still sold, and with no warning, even at respected stores like Valley View Farms. The Baltimore County parks are rapidly being overtaken by Asian Bittersweet, mile a minute, Japanese stilt grass, wine berry, and multiflora rose and other sticker bushes. Trees are covered and being pulled down by vines. The ground is either covered by invasives or bare with all native plants eaten by deer. It is distressing watching the trees rapidly being destroyed. Mary Corddry<br>Sent from my iPhone<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>On Jan 24, 2016, at 5:06 AM, Marc Imlay <<a href="mailto:ialm@erols.com">ialm@erols.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Health impact is more justification for biocontrol research on Japanese Barberry. </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>Marc Imlay, PhD,<br>Conservation biologist, Park Ranger Office</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>Non-native Invasive Plant Control coordinator. <br><a href="tel:%28301%29%20442-5657" target="_blank">(301) 442-5657</a> cell </span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:blue'><a href="mailto:ialm@erols.com" target="_blank" title="blocked::mailto:ialm@erols.com"><span style='font-weight:normal'>ialm@erols.com</span></a></span></b><span style='color:blue'><br></span><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>Natural and Historical Resources Division<br>The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission</span><span style='color:blue'><br></span></b><span style='color:blue'><a href="http://www.pgparks.com/" target="_blank" title="blocked::http://www.pgparks.com/
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Note the slightly elongated, oval-shaped berries. Photo credit: Wikipedian in Residence in Botanical Garden Jevremovac</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:18.75pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Ubuntu;color:black'>Japanese barberry, (Berberis thunbergi), arrives in the woods by birds eating the fruits in winter and pooping/planting them. It can grow in full shade and established woods. Nobody, (especially not deer), eats the leaves or the prickly twigs. It can root where branches touch the ground and where seeds are dropped in place to make eventually an extensive, dense cluster. Its leaves break down quickly and raise the nitrogen level in the soil, encouraging earthworms and discouraging native woods plants. It offers mice shelter from predators, encouraging them to congregate and share germs. Its dense foliage keeps the area underneath it moist so that ticks can be active almost all the time.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:18.75pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Ubuntu;color:black'>Research by Tom Worthley, ( University of Connecticut Dept of Extension in College of Agriculture & Natural Resource), Scott Williams, ( University of Connecticut Dept of Natural Resources & Environment), and Jeffrey Ward (Connecticut Agriculture Experiment Station Dept of Forestry & Horticulture), found:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:26.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:16.8pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>o<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#222222'>120 Lyme infected ticks per acre where barberry was “not contained”</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:26.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:16.8pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>o<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#222222'>40 Lyme infected ticks per acre where barberry was “contained”</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:26.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:16.8pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>o<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#222222'>10 Lyme infected ticks per acre where barberry was absent</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:18.75pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Ubuntu;color:black'>So that’s why I pull barberry at</span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Ubuntu;color:navy'><a href="http://www.nature.org/photos-and-video/video/fraser-preserve-fairfax-county-virginia" target="_blank"><span style='color:navy;text-decoration:none'> Fraser Preserve</span></a></span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Ubuntu;color:black'> every January & February.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:16.8pt;background:white'><a href="http://vnps.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/barberry-in-snow.jpg"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#5C865A;text-decoration:none'><image002.jpg></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-top:3.75pt;text-align:center;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Ubuntu;color:black'>Potowmack chapter removes barberry at Fraser last year. A little snow is helpful, but you can’t pull barberry if the ground is frozen.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:18.75pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Ubuntu;color:black'>I’ve often said that we can work with snow on the ground. Snow actually insulates the ground and keeps it from freezing; it also increases contrast and helps you spot the small barberry sprouts. But we can’t work when the ground is frozen. Last year I had to cancel half the work sessions I’d scheduled because of frozen ground: you just can’t pull plants from frozen ground. The tops just break off and leave the crown of the plant behind, which leaves it alive and harder to pull the next time you try. Other years only one or two scheduled workdays have had to be cancelled: we really don’t get a lot of ground freezing around here, especially not in the woods with a good layer of leaf litter. The barberry at Fraser is not found in bare ground locations where the ground would freeze more readily.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:18.75pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Ubuntu;color:black'>Barberry is what Alan, (Alan Ford, Potowmack Chapter President), calls a “crown plant:” you kill it by removing the junction between the topgrowth and the roots. Often it’s easiest and causes less soil disturbance if you clip the roots and just remove the crown. It does not grow back from bits of root left in the ground. It does grow from seeds dropped under larger plants, so that it is very worthwhile to return to places where there were large plants or patches to pull sprouts until the seed bank is exhausted — I don’t have statistics on this, but most of them are gone after 3 years of sprout-pulling.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Ubuntu;color:black'>Margaret Chatham<br>Potowmack Chapter Newsletter Editor</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Ken Bawer [<a href="mailto:kbawer@msn.com"><span style='color:#0563C1'>mailto:kbawer@msn.com</span></a>] <br>Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2016 9:09 PM<br>To: Marc Imlay <<a href="mailto:ialm@erols.com"><span style='color:#0563C1'>ialm@erols.com</span></a>><br>Subject: Fw: Japanese Barberry in Gunpowder Falls State Park, MD</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Marc, this photo may not meet your needs since it is hard to identify the Japanese Barberry. Just about all of the plants in the foreground are JB as well as the reddish-brown shrubs above the horizontal green area up on the far slope. There were thousands, and possibly tens of thousands of JB plants forming an impenetrable mass except for the trail system. This was the worst site for JB I have ever seen, and I've hiked all over the area.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>This photo was on the north side of stream west of Big Falls Road (and east of I-83 I think).</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>If you need a better photo, maybe the time to go out would be when the plants are in leaf.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Ken</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>________________________________________</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>From: Ken Bawer <<a href="mailto:bawer@us.ibm.com"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>bawer@us.ibm.com</span></a>></span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2016 8:55:35 PM</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>To: <a href="mailto:kbawer@msn.com"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>kbawer@msn.com</span></a></span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Subject: Gunpowder</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:18.75pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Ubuntu;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#999999'>Read </span></i><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'> <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Following is the information we discussed</span></strong></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'> </span><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>on the value of removing Japanese Barberry and Bush Honeysuckle for control of deer ticks and Lyme Disease</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'> </span><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>.</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'> </span><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'> </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>I would recommend removing all the Japanese barberry and bush honeysuckle since these invasive plants increase the risk of ticks with the lyme Disease parasite, Borelia burgdorferi, by a factor of 8.8 for the barberry and 10 for the honeysuckle. When Matt Salo removed all the Japanese barberry at</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'> </span><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>M-NCPPC</span></strong><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'> </span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'> </span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>Euclid Park in Cheverly all the ticks went away that had been dense.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>C. Lyme Disease Management </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>There is an 8.8 times increased risk of lyme disease in Jpanese Barberry dominated areas. Jeff Ward reported at the MA-EPPC conference last August 2007 that ticks doubled in Connecticut where Japanese Barberry was present. A year later “The Connecticut researchers found that questing adult ticks were most abundant in areas dominated by Japanese barberry, and that about 44% of the ticks found in barberry were infected with Borrelia burgdorferi, -- the spirochete causative agent of human Lyme disease. However, only 10% of the less abundant ticks from non-barberry areas were infected. These findings suggest a great probability of humans </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>becoming infected with Lyme disease in barberry dominated areas.” </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>Thus, there is an 8.8 times greater risk in Japanese barberry patches.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:blue'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>Staff at Catoctin Mountain National Park have been looking for </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>justification to control the Japanese Barberry which has evidently </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>covered about 1/4th of the 5,000 acres. This may help.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:blue'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>One of the principles of Parasitology is that parasite problems </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>increase in disturbed mono-cultural habitats. Shistosomiasis </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>from snails in Africa is a classic example with the incidence being </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>very low in the more natural areas. We recommend monitoring both </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>deer tick density and percent of ticks that are actual hosts of the </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>Lyme disease bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:blue'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>We have three goals, to reduce lyme disrease, to remove the lyme </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>disease barrier to enjoyment of nature, and to provide support for </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>control of non-native invasive plants. Note the message below.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:blue'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>NISC Biweekly report for October 17 - October 31 *Meeting</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>Linkage Between Invasive Plants and Human Disease: October </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>2008, </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:blue'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>Scott C. Williams a researcher at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station together with Jeffery S. Ward, Thomas E. Worthley, and Kirby C. Stafford from the University of Connecticut reported that the management of the invasive plant, Japanese barberry (Berberis thumbergii) reduces blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis) abundance and could have human health ramifications. The native white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) is a primary host for larval and nymphal blacklegged tick. The researchers </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>found that tick abundances were greatest in dense barberry. These ticks are a major vector for agents that cause Lyme disease, human grandulocytic</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy'> </span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>anaplasmosis, and human babesiosis. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:blue'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:blue'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:18.75pt;background:white'><i><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#999999'>the Potowmack Chapter Newsletter, which includes information about helping to remove barberry this winter at Fraser: </span></i><i><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Ubuntu;color:navy'><a href="http://vnps.org/potowmack/download/newsletters(5)/VNPS_Potowmack_News_v34n1%20(1).pdf" target="_blank"><span style='color:navy;text-decoration:none'>Potowmack News</span></a></span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> MAIPC [<a href="mailto:maipc-bounces@lists.maipc.org">mailto:maipc-bounces@lists.maipc.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Marc Imlay<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, January 23, 2016 10:43 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:maipc@lists.maipc.org">maipc@lists.maipc.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [MAIPC] FW: [vnps-pot] Fw: A Short Summary and Call to Action for 3 Bills Related to VNPS Mission</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>For residents of Virginia. </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:18.75pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Ubuntu'>2) Wavyleaf Grass</span></b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Ubuntu'>: Budget amendment to provide $200,000 (Senate) and $150,000 (House) to the Department of Forestry to combat Wavyleaf Basketgrass. This plant is a new invasive species with very aggressive characteristics. It is anticipated to be worse than Japanese stiltgrass (<i>Microstegium</i>) but it currently infests just 300 acres in Virginia, so this amendment provides critical resources to enable eradication of WLBG before it overwhelms natural areas all over the state.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:18.75pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Ubuntu'>ACTION:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:26.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:16.8pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#222222'>1.</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:#222222'> </span><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#222222'>Call or email your Delegate </span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#222222'>if he or she<b> </b>is<b> </b>a Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Agriculture, Natural Resources and Technology: <a href="http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sub+H02003"><span style='color:#5C865A'>you can find out here.</span></a> <b>MESSAGE –“ Please support the Hope amendment, budget item 101 #1h to increase the budget for the Depart. Of Forestry by $150,000 to combat Wavyleaf Grass. This increase is critically needed to eradicate this aggressive invasive non-native plant that could grievously harm the Commonwealth’s natural heritage. This is an invasive plant we can control now before it gets out of hand.”</b> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:26.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:16.8pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#222222'>1.</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:#222222'> </span><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#222222'>Call or email your Senator </span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#222222'>if he or she<b> </b>is a Member of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Economic Development and Natural Resources: <a href="http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sub+S05003"><span style='color:#5C865A;text-decoration:none'>you can find out here. </span></a><b>MESSAGE: “Please support the Hanger amendment, budget item 101 #2s to increase the budget for the Dept. of Forestry by $200,000 to combat Wavyleaf Basketgrass. This increase is critically needed to eradicate this aggressive invasive non-native plant that could grievously harm the Commonwealth’s natural heritage. This is an invasive plant we can control now before it gets out of hand.”</b> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:26.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:16.8pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#222222'>1.</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:#222222'> </span><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#222222'>P</span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#222222'>lease send me an email to let me know you took action and with whom so I can follow up: <a href="mailto:marcia.mabee@gmail.com"><span style='color:#5C865A;text-decoration:none'>marcia.mabee@gmail.com</span></a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> <a href="mailto:vnps-pot@yahoogroups.com">vnps-pot@yahoogroups.com</a> [<a href="mailto:vnps-pot@yahoogroups.com">mailto:vnps-pot@yahoogroups.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Nancy Vehrs <a href="mailto:nvehrs1@yahoo.com">nvehrs1@yahoo.com</a> [vnps-pot]<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, January 23, 2016 4:59 PM<br><b>To:</b> yahoogroups <<a href="mailto:vnps-pot@yahoogroups.com">vnps-pot@yahoogroups.com</a>>; Plant NoVA Natives <<a href="mailto:plant-nova-natives@googlegroups.com">plant-nova-natives@googlegroups.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> [vnps-pot] Fw: A Short Summary and Call to Action for 3 Bills Related to VNPS Mission</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453569101816_20803"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>Hi Everyone -</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453569101816_20802"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453569101816_22165"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>I hope that everyone across the Commonwealth is cozy and dry as we experience this major snowfall/blizzard. Some important conservation legislation is pending down in Richmond right now. One is a budget amendment to increase funding for the Natural Heritage Program and the two others are bills relating to invasive species. Please click the link and take action as specified. (I apologize to those for whom this is a duplication.)</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453569101816_22296"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453569101816_22297"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>Thank you!</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453569101816_22243"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453569101816_22298"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>Nancy</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453569101816_22299"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>Nancy Vehrs, President</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453569101816_22301"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>Virginia Native Plant Society</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="http://www.vnps.org/" id="ms__id105463">http://www.vnps.org/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><br> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453569101816_19966"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453569101816_19965"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453569101816_19964"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453569101816_19963"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>----- Forwarded Message -----<br><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453569101816_19978">From:</b> Suzanne Dingwell <<a href="mailto:suzdingwell@gmail.com">suzdingwell@gmail.com</a>><br><b>To:</b> Arlington Regional Master Naturalists <<a href="mailto:armn@googlegroups.com">armn@googlegroups.com</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, January 23, 2016 4:27 PM<br><b>Subject:</b> A Short Summary and Call to Action for 3 Bills</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453569101816_19994"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div id=yiv5732026771><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453569101816_20796"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453569101816_22351"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>Friends, </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453569101816_20795"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453569101816_20909"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>A lot is at stake in the current Legislative session for issues many of you know to be extremely important. In an effort to help you to exercise your right to make your voice heard, VNPS (Virginia Native Plant Society) has provided this summary along with links to enable your action of choice. The link will take you to a page with a <b>brief</b>, 2 -3 sentence summary of the three bills in question, along with links to help you determine who your representatives are, and pre-crafted messages should you wish to use them. Calling is the most effective way to reach out, but emails are good too. Most of the time you will just be leaving a message on voice mail. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453569101816_20910"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>Be a part of the solution!</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453569101816_20911"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="http://vnps.org/action-needed-virginia-legislature-2016-2/" target="_blank">http://vnps.org/action-needed-virginia-legislature-2016-2/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:black'>sue dingwell</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:white'>__._,_.___</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt' id=fromDMARC><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="100%" noshade style='color:#E3E3E3' align=center></div><p class=MsoNormal>Posted by: Nancy Vehrs <<a href="mailto:nvehrs1@yahoo.com">nvehrs1@yahoo.com</a>> <o:p></o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="100%" noshade style='color:#E3E3E3' align=center></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><br><tt><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>The Virginia Native Plant Society is dedicated to the conservation of native plant species. 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