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Tag: Invasive Plant Management

  • Tuesday, August 9, 9:00 am – 11:00 am – Invasive Plant Mitigation Workshop

    An Invasive Plant Mitigation Workshop will take place on August 9 at the Polly Hill Arboretum in West Tisbury, co sponsored by the Arboretum and by The Nature Conservancy.

    Join Grounds Manager Ian Jochems to learn strategies for invasive plant and weed management at PHA that you can use in your own garden. We will cover trees, shrubs, vines, and herbaceous plants such as black locust, autumn olive, bittersweet, and garlic mustard. Attendees will be able to try out the different methods of management and each participant will leave with a management tool gift. $20 for PHA members, $35 for nonmembers.

    Registration is required. Sign up here: bit.ly/Invasive-Plant-Mitigation

  • Tuesday, March 22, 9:00 am – 2:00 pm – The Invasive Plant Issue and Invasive Plant Identification

    On Tuesday, March 22 from 9 – 2 UMass Extension’s Landscape, Nursery & Urban Forestry Program will sponsor a workshop on The Invasive Plant Issue and Invasive Plant Identification at the Doubletree Hotel, 11 Beaver Street in Milford. An overview of the topic of invasive plants, focusing on why we should be concerned about them and enhancing your ability to readily identify invasive plants as well as their look-alikes. The work of the Massachusetts Invasive Plant Advisory Group, including its strategies, recommendations, and the recently released Early Detection/Rapid Response Priority List document, will be discussed.

    In the last several years, there has been growing interest in invasive plants and their management. While turf and landscape professionals might be very proficient in the development of a weed management program for turf and/or landscape, invasive plant management often reveals many new and unique challenges to these professionals. This 4-day program is intended to help participants meet these challenges when attempting to develop an invasive plant management program as part of their business. A certificate in Invasive Plant Management may be obtained by attending all four sessions and obtaining a passing grade on each. To earn the certificate, sessions A1 – A3 can be taken in any order, but must be taken prior to Session B, Developing an Invasive Plant Management Program. All sessions will be offered annually to facilitate earning the certificate over more than one year’s time. All sessions may also be taken individually. Registration Cost is $75, $68/person for a group of three or more registrations from the same company. Online registrations include a nominal processing fee.
    – See more at: http://ag.umass.edu/events/invasive-plant-issue-invasive-plant-identification-a3#sthash.Lu92CVbv.dpuf

  • Friday, December 7 – Where Are We in Invasive Plant Management?

    On Friday, December 7, the New England Botanical Club will host Karen Lombard, Director of Stewardship and Restoration, The Nature Conservancy, Massachusetts, who will speak on Where Are We in Invasive Plant Management?: Lessons from Two Long-Term Invasive Plant Management Projects.  The meeting is open to the public, and will be held in the Haller Lecture Hall (Room 102) found inside the door to the right of the Harvard Museum of Natural History entrance at 24 Oxford Street.  For confirmation on the time, please email the Corresponding Secretary at neystersmith@bentley.edu.