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- description: The proposed project will hire and train an invasives mapping and monitoring crew for two primary purposes. The
first will be to locate and map populations of invasive plants as part of a larger station-sponsored program to describe and
treat multiple invasive species on Complex refuges. This larger station-sponsored program involves the formation and support
of a weed treatment strike team. The mapping efforts will be used to document and describe infestations and to reduce the
strike team s search times, increasing their ability to control targeted species at the best biological time. The second purpose
will be to collect efficacy and impact information from past treatments, including past strike team efforts and other station-sponsored
projects. Training of the volunteers in the operation of GPS equipment, weed identification, monitoring protocols, and data
management will also develop a pool of trained individuals for future invasive plant management activities. GPS/GIS technologies
and a customized data dictionary will be used to inventory and map the location of invasive species populations on refuge
lands. The combination of the proposed project and the station-sponsored strike team will help document, monitor, and reduce
the incidence of invasive species on refuge lands as a step in the recovery of native shrub-steppe, wetland, and riparian
habitats, and will help to evaluate and inform refuge management actions.The targeted goal of the 2016 invasives mapping crew
will be to conduct initial surveys of 10,000 acres at Columbia NWR and Hanford Reach NM for 10 priority species of invasive
plants. (Phragmites, Russian olive, Siberian elm, yellow flag iris, perennial pepperweed, camel thorn, Russian knapweed, diffuse
knapweed, salt cedar, and rush-skeleton weed.The second goal of the crew is to conduct aquatic vegetation sampling to monitor
response to the 2013 and 2014 rotenone treatments of the Burbank Slough (McNary NWR) and McCormack Slough (Umatilla NWR).
This aquatic sampling will also provide further information on Eurasian water-milfoil presence in refuge waters.; abstract:
The proposed project will hire and train an invasives mapping and monitoring crew for two primary purposes. The first will
be to locate and map populations of invasive plants as part of a larger station-sponsored program to describe and treat multiple
invasive species on Complex refuges. This larger station-sponsored program involves the formation and support of a weed treatment
strike team. The mapping efforts will be used to document and describe infestations and to reduce the strike team s search
times, increasing their ability to control targeted species at the best biological time. The second purpose will be to collect
efficacy and impact information from past treatments, including past strike team efforts and other station-sponsored projects.
Training of the volunteers in the operation of GPS equipment, weed identification, monitoring protocols, and data management
will also develop a pool of trained individuals for future invasive plant management activities. GPS/GIS technologies and
a customized data dictionary will be used to inventory and map the location of invasive species populations on refuge lands.
The combination of the proposed project and the station-sponsored strike team will help document, monitor, and reduce the
incidence of invasive species on refuge lands as a step in the recovery of native shrub-steppe, wetland, and riparian habitats,
and will help to evaluate and inform refuge management actions.The targeted goal of the 2016 invasives mapping crew will be
to conduct initial surveys of 10,000 acres at Columbia NWR and Hanford Reach NM for 10 priority species of invasive plants.
(Phragmites, Russian olive, Siberian elm, yellow flag iris, perennial pepperweed, camel thorn, Russian knapweed, diffuse knapweed,
salt cedar, and rush-skeleton weed.The second goal of the crew is to conduct aquatic vegetation sampling to monitor response
to the 2013 and 2014 rotenone treatments of the Burbank Slough (McNary NWR) and McCormack Slough (Umatilla NWR). This aquatic
sampling will also provide further information on Eurasian water-milfoil presence in refuge waters.
Citation
- Title Hanford Reach/Columbia - Mapping of Invasive Plants and Monitoring of Efficacy and Impacts in Support of Invasive Control
and Rehabilitation Projects.
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2018-05-20T20:01:53.161966
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