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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Marc, I’m glad you sent out this email. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>It is exactly what I feel. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>What I teach. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>What I try to convey = get people to understand the problem and allow them to help = <u>empower them and give them encouragement</u>!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Then they come to LOVE each tree they saved, and want to save more. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>This can give people hope in these pretty dark times.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Carole<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Carole Bergmann<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Forest Ecologist/Field Botanist<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Maryland National Capital Park & Planning Commission<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Just a reminder, a good project for the warmer days of Winter, such as one day last week, is </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>to remove the vertical vine component of Japanese honeysuckle up the trees. </span></b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#C55A11'>Volunteers love each tree they just saved.</span><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Marc Imlay, PhD, Chair, MAIPC Biological control working Group Conservation biologist, </span></b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Park Ranger Office, Non-native Invasive Plant Control coordinator. </span></b><a href="mailto:Marc.Imlay@pgparks.com"><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Marc.Imlay@pgparks.com</span></b></a><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>(301) 442-5657 cell Natural and Historical Resources Division</span></b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><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: Marc Imlay [<a href="mailto:ialm@erols.com">mailto:ialm@erols.com</a>] <br>Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2016 7:32 PM<br>To: 'Kent L Hibben' <<a href="mailto:KentL.Hibben@gmail.com">KentL.Hibben@gmail.com</a>><br>Subject: FW: Moyaone Public Affairs Bulletin 14 Dec 2016<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><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red'>If Clearwater Nature Center and Port Tobacco River Conservancy can do it so can Mayaone.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red'>I led a survey and training session for staff at Clearwater Nature Center a year ago for Winter Invasive plants. A good January project is to remove the vertical vine component of Japanese honeysuckle up the trees. Volunteers love each tree they just saved. And they are easy to find in Winter. A regionally dominate invasive plant species in forested areas is Japanese honeysuckle. However, unlike other regionally dominate Japanese Stiltgrass and Wavyleaf Basketgrass species, it is easy to greatly reduce. The volunteers removed all of it in the 100 acre Nature Center over 5 years. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red'> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=0 style='width:399.0pt;border-collapse:collapse'><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td width=532 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:399.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red'>Method. Pull out Japanese honeysuckle by</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red'>the roots in Winter wherever we see it up in the trees, aim the roots upward and tie them in place. A few have to be cut-stumped.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td width=532 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:399.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'></td></tr><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td width=532 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:399.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red'>The absence of free Winter light energy causes the trailing horizontal vines to decline precipitously the next year. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td width=532 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:399.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red'>Thus we control 50-80% of the honeysuckle with 10%<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td width=532 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:399.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red'>of the effort to control all of it and minimal soil disturbance. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td width=532 valign=bottom style='width:399.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red'> Do not pull it out of the trees and watch for native vines<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td width=532 valign=bottom style='width:399.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red'>(moonseed, trumpet vine, native grape etc.). This method greatly reduces spraying requirements or pulling the horizontal component.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red'>They do not grow back up the trees if they are dug out but do grow back up if merely cut.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>From: Julie Simpson [<a href="mailto:jsimpson@porttobaccoriver.org">mailto:jsimpson@porttobaccoriver.org</a>] <br><span style='color:red'>Mr. Snow,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red'>PTRC President Tina Wilson and I visited the Port Tobacco Courthouse area on Monday to see whether there was a site suitable for a honeysuckle control project. We identified a wooded area near Burch House that extends south parallel to Chapel Point Rd that is infested with honeysuckle that Marc thought could be controlled by about 10 volunteers. The technique would be to identify honeysuckle that is climbing trees and dig up the roots using a trowel, or for larger plants, cut the stem with a saw and apply glyphosate. Marc would be the person applying the pesticide and he is certified to do so in Charles County. We would supply all equipment and there would be no cost to the county from the project.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red'>We have identified January 7 and 21 as dates for the project, from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm, weather permitting. Please let us know if you have any thoughts about this proposal.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red'>-- <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red'>Julie Simpson<br>Vice President<br>Port Tobacco River Conservancy<br>(301) 934-2025<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red'>Marc Imlay, PhD, Chair, Biological control working Group Conservation <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red'>biologist, Park Ranger Office, Non-native Invasive Plant Control <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red'>coordinator. <a href="mailto:Marc.Imlay@pgparks.com"><span style='color:red;text-decoration:none'>Marc.Imlay@pgparks.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red'>(301) 442-5657 cell Natural and Historical Resources Division<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red'>The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><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 id=DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>