<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Another well-researched weed control guide if part of the 2013 handbook, “<span style="font-size: 20px;" class="">Vegetation Management: An Ecoregional Approach</span>" done by the Federal Highway Administration for the use of all 50 State DOTs includes a chapter on<div class="">“On How to Control 40 Invasive Plants” with specific chemical and non-chemical treatments for each weed. SPOT-SPRAYING ONLY is implied.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The integrated management recommendations on pages 201-205 were researched and authored by Ian Heap, Joe DiTomaso and Dave Nelson for vegetation managers and contractors.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Pages 201 - 211 also include the use of grazing, biocontrols and prescribed burns.</div><div class="">Actual partnership examples and agreements are included in pages 224-231.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 21px;" class="">Check out the FHWA website <a href="https://www.environment.fhwa.dot.gov" class="">https://www.environment.fhwa.dot.gov</a></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Sharing information so we don’t have to keep recreating the wheel,</div><div class="">Bonnie Harper-Lore</div><div class="">Restoration Ecologist, Ret.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 25, 2019, at 3:16 PM, James Cane <<a href="mailto:jim.cane2@gmail.com" class="">jim.cane2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Barbara- I have found Nature Conservancy's weed control guidebook for reserve managers to be very helpful, specific and practical. Often times when using herbicides, there are ways to do spot applications that allow you to avoid broadcast applications.<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.invasive.org/gist/handbook.html" class="">https://www.invasive.org/gist/handbook.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">jim<br class=""></div></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 12:12 PM Barbara Passero <<a href="mailto:bpassero@meadowmaking.org" class="">bpassero@meadowmaking.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana;" class="">MS4B has
submitted a proposal to plant pollinator patches and bring back bobolinks to the
largest meadow of a 70-acre conservation area. </div>
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<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana;" class="">The teens
(15-19) in our summer youth work & learn program will plan the gardens and
plant the plugs and plants. Teens will also serve as citizen scientists,
tracking the weather, noting the wildlife they see, recording youth activities,
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<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana;" class="">The area
has been overrun with invasives—Black Swallowwort, Bittersweet, others. The
landscape contractor intends to use herbicides that he says are safe on the
property sometime in the spring. The invasives have to go, but I’d hate to have
toxic chemicals sprayed where I’m trying to attract pollinators. I don’t want to
seem obstructive either. I need more practical information from experts, so I’m
writing to ask for your suggestions.</div>
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<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana;" class="">Thank you
for any help you can give. Check out website <a href="http://www.meadowmaking.org/" target="_blank" class="">www.meadowmaking.org</a> for program
information. Let me know whether you’d like to know more.</div>
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<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana;" class="">Sincerely,
Barbara<br class=""><br class="">Barbara Passero, Director<br class="">MEADOWSCAPING for
Biodiversity<br class="">174 Moody St. #244<br class="">Waltham, MA 02453<br class="">Office: 781-209-0052
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