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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> That is a great thought. And when a deer has learned to like the stiltgrass it may remove it elsewhere. Marc<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><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>From:</b> William Buettner Jr <WBuettner@mdot.maryland.gov> <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, October 01, 2021 8:06 AM<br><b>To:</b> Marc Imlay <ialm@erols.com>; INVASIVES@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU; 'MAIPC Listserve' <maipc@lists.maipc.org><br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [MAIPC] Japanese Stilt grass<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Has anyone tried to spray stilt grass with an “attractant” that may induce deer browsing? I’m not sure what deer like in the sense of taste but a spray of “sugar” may get them to at least browse the plant which from my observations they appear to shy away from? Just a thought.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=402 height=106 style='width:4.1875in;height:1.1041in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D7B69E.E530AF20"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><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>From:</b> MAIPC <<a href="mailto:maipc-bounces@lists.maipc.org">maipc-bounces@lists.maipc.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Marc Imlay<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 30, 2021 4:12 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:INVASIVES@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU">INVASIVES@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU</a>; 'MAIPC Listserve' <<a href="mailto:maipc@lists.maipc.org">maipc@lists.maipc.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> [MAIPC] Japanese Stilt grass<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Today at Ruth B. Swann Park in Charles County Maryland, I came across about a quarter acre that had only dead stilt grass from last year. The dead stilt grass was very thick but there was no live stilt grass or any other green vegetation including beefsteak plant, Perilla frutescens. There was a lot of Perilla about 300 feet away. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Marc Imlay<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><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>From:</b> Marc Imlay <<a href="mailto:ialm@erols.com">ialm@erols.com</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 23, 2021 7:16 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'Kit Britton' <<a href="mailto:kitbritton@gmail.com">kitbritton@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> RE: Private: Re: Successional Change at Fraser Preserve with Margaret Chatham - Thu, 03/11/2021 7:30pm-9:00pm<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>If it kills the seedbank and you remove Perilla, the stilt grass would not come up at that location the next year (unless it came in from elsewhere).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Kit Britton <<a href="mailto:kitbritton@gmail.com">kitbritton@gmail.com</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 23, 2021 6:57 AM<br><b>To:</b> Marc Imlay <<a href="mailto:ialm@erols.com">ialm@erols.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Private: Re: Successional Change at Fraser Preserve with Margaret Chatham - Thu, 03/11/2021 7:30pm-9:00pm<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>I don't know. I'm trying to think how to figure that out.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> I think if I look for the first spring/early summer growth of both plants, there would be the clue. Is that right?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Killing the seedbank would mean perilla comes up mostly alone except for stiltgrass seed that blows in late the prior year.So maybe that would be a smaller "crop". So the result is the stiltgrass that year is sparse. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>One thing is perilla is usually still carrying and presumably dropping seed well after the stiltgrass seems finished.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I will watch patches of perilla on TRI this spring/summer. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Kit<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 8:53 AM Marc Imlay <<a href="mailto:ialm@erols.com">ialm@erols.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><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'>Does the Perilla kill the seed bank or just the emerging stiltgrass? Marc</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>From:</b> Kit Britton <<a href="mailto:kitbritton@gmail.com" target="_blank">kitbritton@gmail.com</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, March 14, 2021 9:20 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:ialm@erols.com" target="_blank">ialm@erols.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Private: Re: Successional Change at Fraser Preserve with Margaret Chatham - Thu, 03/11/2021 7:30pm-9:00pm<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>From observation in woodlands environments at Theodore Roosevelt Island and in Donaldson Run Park it appears that Perilla may have a toxic effect on Japanese Stiltgrass which will not grow under the Perilla plants or is very sparse. Also on a larger scale at Gambrill State Park in Maryland this was obnserved last summer.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Kit Britton<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>ARMN Master Naturalist<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><div id="gmail-m_4482336985299559865DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=1 width="99%" noshade style='color:#909090' align=center></div><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td style='padding:0in 11.25pt 0in 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.avast.com%2Fantivirus&data=04%7C01%7CWBuettner%40mdot.maryland.gov%7Cc64f4a3c4c8a4624bf6a08d9844e9571%7Cb38cd27c57ca4597be2822df43dd47f1%7C0%7C0%7C637686295330713050%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=aGNAaIOA2pUFgLlITBkRrX0i%2FGww1GBU6WM%2FTlzP5B0%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=90 height=33 style='width:.9375in;height:.3437in' id="_x0000_i1027" src="https://static.avast.com/emails/avast-mail-stamp.png" alt="Avast logo"></span></a><o:p></o:p></p></td><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#3D4D5A'>This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. <br><a href="https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.avast.com%2Fantivirus&data=04%7C01%7CWBuettner%40mdot.maryland.gov%7Cc64f4a3c4c8a4624bf6a08d9844e9571%7Cb38cd27c57ca4597be2822df43dd47f1%7C0%7C0%7C637686295330723008%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=XBY3QzRG0GGgkf6e8iI0ucFirDmI2TDuknMOV1QOd1Y%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">www.avast.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>