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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I joked over a decade ago that we should spray it with salt for salt licks...but honestly was just kidding. Pretty sure we can't get deer to develop an acquired taste, although it would be an amazing and fun experiment...</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">:) Mary</div><div><br></div>
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On Friday, October 1, 2021, 08:32:50 AM EDT, Marc Imlay <ialm@erols.com> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614"><div><div class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614WordSection1"><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> That is a great thought. And when a deer has learned to like the stiltgrass it may remove it elsewhere. Marc</span></p><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal"> </p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><div class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614yqt1294752421" id="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614yqtfd02248"><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> William Buettner Jr <WBuettner@mdot.maryland.gov> <br clear="none"><b>Sent:</b> Friday, October 01, 2021 8:06 AM<br clear="none"><b>To:</b> Marc Imlay <ialm@erols.com>; INVASIVES@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU; 'MAIPC Listserve' <maipc@lists.maipc.org><br clear="none"><b>Subject:</b> RE: [MAIPC] Japanese Stilt grass</p></div></div></div><div class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614yqt1294752421" id="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614yqtfd58693"><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal"> </p><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal">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.</p><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal"> </p><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal"> </p><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal"><img id="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614Picture_x0020_1" style="width: 402px; max-width: 402px;" src="cid:JPaMXZzBaHMhqysDuKjd" data-inlineimagemanipulating="true"></p><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal"> </p><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal"> </p><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal"> </p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> MAIPC <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:maipc-bounces@lists.maipc.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">maipc-bounces@lists.maipc.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Marc Imlay<br clear="none"><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 30, 2021 4:12 PM<br clear="none"><b>To:</b> <a shape="rect" href="mailto:INVASIVES@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">INVASIVES@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU</a>; 'MAIPC Listserve' <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:maipc@lists.maipc.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">maipc@lists.maipc.org</a>><br clear="none"><b>Subject:</b> [MAIPC] Japanese Stilt grass</p></div></div><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal"> </p><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family: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. </span></p><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">Marc Imlay</span></p><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal"> </p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Marc Imlay <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:ialm@erols.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">ialm@erols.com</a>> <br clear="none"><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 23, 2021 7:16 AM<br clear="none"><b>To:</b> 'Kit Britton' <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:kitbritton@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">kitbritton@gmail.com</a>><br clear="none"><b>Subject:</b> RE: Private: Re: Successional Change at Fraser Preserve with Margaret Chatham - Thu, 03/11/2021 7:30pm-9:00pm</p></div></div><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal"> </p><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family: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).</span></p><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal"> </p><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Kit Britton <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:kitbritton@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">kitbritton@gmail.com</a>> <br clear="none"><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 23, 2021 6:57 AM<br clear="none"><b>To:</b> Marc Imlay <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:ialm@erols.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">ialm@erols.com</a>><br clear="none"><b>Subject:</b> Re: Private: Re: Successional Change at Fraser Preserve with Margaret Chatham - Thu, 03/11/2021 7:30pm-9:00pm</p><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal"> </p><div><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal">I don't know. I'm trying to think how to figure that out.</p><div><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal"> I think if I look for the first spring/early summer growth of both plants, there would be the clue. Is that right?</p></div><div><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal">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. </p></div><div><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal">One thing is perilla is usually still carrying and presumably dropping seed well after the stiltgrass seems finished.</p></div><div><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal">I will watch patches of perilla on TRI this spring/summer. </p></div><div><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal">Kit</p></div></div><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal"> </p><div><div><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal">On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 8:53 AM Marc Imlay <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:ialm@erols.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">ialm@erols.com</a>> wrote:</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="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">Does the Perilla kill the seed bank or just the emerging stiltgrass? Marc</span></p><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal"> </p><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Kit Britton <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:kitbritton@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">kitbritton@gmail.com</a>> <br clear="none"><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, March 14, 2021 9:20 PM<br clear="none"><b>To:</b> <a shape="rect" href="mailto:ialm@erols.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">ialm@erols.com</a><br clear="none"><b>Subject:</b> Private: Re: Successional Change at Fraser Preserve with Margaret Chatham - Thu, 03/11/2021 7:30pm-9:00pm</p><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal"> </p><div><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal">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.</p><div><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal">Kit Britton</p></div><div><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal">ARMN Master Naturalist</p></div><div><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal"> </p></div></div></div><div id="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614gmail-m_4482336985299559865DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"> </p><div align="center" class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;"><hr align="center" noshade="" size="1" width="99%" style="color:#909090;"></div><table class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;"><tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="padding:0in 11.25pt 0in 6.0pt;"><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal"><a shape="rect" 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" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span style="text-decoration:none;"><img id="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614_x0000_i1027" border="0" width="90" height="33" style="width:.9375in;min-height:.3437in;" src="https://static.avast.com/emails/avast-mail-stamp.png" alt="Avast logo" data-inlineimagemanipulating="true"></span></a></p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" 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 clear="none"><a shape="rect" 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" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.avast.com</a> </span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="ydpdfd7aee9yiv9463698614MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"> </p></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div><div class="ydpdfd7aee9yqt1294752421" id="ydpdfd7aee9yqtfd51529">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">MAIPC mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:MAIPC@lists.maipc.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">MAIPC@lists.maipc.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://lists.maipc.org/listinfo.cgi/maipc-maipc.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://lists.maipc.org/listinfo.cgi/maipc-maipc.org</a><br clear="none"></div></div>
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