<div dir="auto">Not surprising. I would conjecture that propagules of Japanese Knotweed also will be introduced, and folks should be monitoring for its appearance at the drill sites and the roads that service them. Cheers, Steve Young of Arlington VA</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 7, 2017 6:27 PM, "Marc Imlay" <<a href="mailto:ialm@erols.com">ialm@erols.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="white" lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_2420663552619838391WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></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:<a href="mailto:Rod.Simmons@alexandriava.gov" target="_blank">Rod.Simmons@<wbr>alexandriava.gov</a>] <br>Sent: Monday, August 07, 2017 5:52 PM<br>To: <a href="mailto:board@mdflora.org" target="_blank">board@mdflora.org</a><br>Subject: Fwd: Fracking is causing invasion of harmful non-native plants in Pennsylvania forests, PSU researchers say.<u></u><u></u></span></b></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></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" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">hilgardp@yahoo.com</a>><u></u><u></u></span></b></p></div></blockquote><table class="m_2420663552619838391MsoNormalTable" 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="m_2420663552619838391yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502140361107_62073"><tr id="m_2420663552619838391yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502140361107_62075"><td valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 7.5pt 0in" id="m_2420663552619838391yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502140361107_62076"><p class="MsoNormal"><b id="m_2420663552619838391yui_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/" id="m_2420663552619838391yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502140361107_62078" target="_blank"><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"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p></td></tr><tr style="height:5.0pt" id="m_2420663552619838391yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502140361107_62079"><td valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;height:5.0pt" id="m_2420663552619838391yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502140361107_62080"><div style="margin-bottom:7.5pt" id="m_2420663552619838391yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502140361107_62081"><p class="MsoNormal"><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/" id="m_2420663552619838391yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502140361107_62083" target="_blank"><span style="color:#2266aa">Lancaster Intelligencer Journal</span></a>, Pennsylvania. <u></u><u></u></span></b></p></div></td></tr></table><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></blockquote></div><div id="m_2420663552619838391DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
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