<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div>What is the research? Bare ground?</div><div><br></div><div>Bill Grant </div><div>Grant Botanical Services </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device</div></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Marc Imlay <ialm@erols.com> </div><div>Date: 8/7/17 6:26 PM (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: maipc@lists.maipc.org, "Sierra Club Maryland Chapter, Alien Invasive" <MD-CONS-INVASIVES@LISTS.SIERRACLUB.ORG> </div><div>Cc: Rod.Simmons@alexandriava.gov </div><div>Subject: [MAIPC] FW: Fracking is causing invasion of harmful non-native plants in Pennsylvania forests, PSU researchers say. </div><div><br></div></div><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></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:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">From:</span></b><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Rod Simmons [mailto:Rod.Simmons@alexandriava.gov] <br>Sent: Monday, August 07, 2017 5:52 PM<br>To: board@mdflora.org<br>Subject: Fwd: Fracking is causing invasion of harmful non-native plants in Pennsylvania forests, PSU researchers say.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p></div><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">From:</span></b><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Patricia Hilgard <<a href="mailto:hilgardp@yahoo.com">hilgardp@yahoo.com</a>><br>Date: August 7, 2017 5:44:35 PM EDT<br>To: Undisclosed recipients:;<br>Subject: Fracking is causing invasion of harmful non-native plants in Pennsylvania forests, PSU researchers say.<br>Reply-To: Patricia Hilgard <<a href="mailto:hilgardp@yahoo.com">hilgardp@yahoo.com</a>><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div></blockquote><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="0" style="width:435.0pt;border-collapse:collapse;word-break:break-word;text-align:inherit;border-spacing: 0px" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502140361107_62073"><tbody><tr id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502140361107_62075"><td valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 7.5pt 0in" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502140361107_62076"><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:14.25pt"><b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502140361107_62077"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><a href="http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/279976/24399/210696/0/" target="_blank" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502140361107_62078"><span style="color:#2266AA">Fracking is causing invasion of harmful non-native plants in Pennsylvania forests, PSU researchers say.</span></a></span></b><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr style="height:5.0pt" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502140361107_62079"><td valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;height:5.0pt" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502140361107_62080"><div style="margin-bottom:7.5pt" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502140361107_62081"><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:14.25pt"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Invasive, non-native plant species are “rapidly invading” northern forests in Pennsylvania because of fracking in the Marcellus shale basin, a group of Penn State researchers say.<a href="http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/279976/24399/210696/0/" target="_blank" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502140361107_62083"><span style="color:#2266AA">Lancaster Intelligencer Journal</span></a>, Pennsylvania. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></blockquote></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
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