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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Stiltgrass is probably in Canada from Ohio to New Hampshire
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.eddmaps.org/distribution/usstate.cfm?sub=3051">http://www.eddmaps.org/distribution/usstate.cfm?sub=3051</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Is Canada researching biological controls for Microstegium? Marc<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The belief that Green is good Is one of the reasons administrators in charge of funding for invasive plant control do not help at all enough. To solve this problem we could facilitate these administrators to come
to our events an see an area with native biological diversity (my favorite in bloom now is calico aster) and vast areas covered instead with Japanese Stiltgrass.</span></b><br>
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Marc Imlay, PhD, Chair, MAIPC Biological control working Group Conservation biologist,<br>
Park Ranger Office, Non-native Invasive Plant Control coordinator. <a href="mailto:Marc.Imlay@pgparks.com">
Marc.Imlay@pgparks.com</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:Marc.Imlay@pgparks.com">Marc.Imlay@pgparks.com</a>><br>
<a href="tel:%28301%29%20442-5657">(301) 442-5657</a><<a href="tel:%28301%29%20442-5657">tel:%28301%29%20442-5657</a>> cell Natural and Historical Resources Division The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission<br>
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