Invasive plants - presentations and webinar available

[Peter Smallidge]

Invasive plants can cause considerable damage to forest (and other) ecosystem, limiting productivity, diversity, access, aesthetic appeal.  Control of these species can be expensive, and not done correctly can further aggravate ecological problems.

 

I have two recent presentations that might be of interest.  One presentation was offered for the Cornell University Cooperative Extension in-service training on November 15 - 17, 2011 in Ithaca, NY.  This training was for CCE educators and partners.  The training session I participated in was hosted by the NY Invasive Species Clearinghouse.

 

• Invasive Plants: In-service handout November 15, 2011
• Handout of 11/16/2011 webinar presentation - pdf of powerpoint
• Article, Integrated Vegetation Management Principles 2011

 

Links of interest

NY Invasive Species Clearninghouse

National Park Service list of plant management fact sheets

US Forest Service - Fire Effects Information System (good plant lif...

iMap - mapping invasive species

(please add other relevant links via the comments to this blog)

 

A second presentation was offered as a ForestConnect webinar on November 16.  That presentation is available here.  I will post links to the archives of the webinar after the 16th.

 

Managing Forest Invasive Plants webinar 11/16/2011 noon session link

Managing Forest Invasive Plants webinar 11/16/2011 evening session link