Help Collect Invasive Ivy Samples

The dreaded invasive ivy. Is it English or Atlantic? That debate could emerge as exciting as the one about Himalayan, Armenian, or European blackberry. To assist in the ivy debate, there is a very cool Washington State Noxious Weed Control Board citizen science project you can read about here:

Help Collect Invasive Ivy Samples

To save you a second or two of mouse clicking, I'll quote you the opening text from the website:

"The State Noxious Weed Control Board is seeking the public’s help working on a project to conduct an updated sampling of escaped, invasive ivy in Washington to determine whether Atlantic ivy, Helix hibernica (commonly called English ivy), is still the more abundant species compared to English ivy, Hedera helix. A 1999 study (Murai 1999) examined 58 wild ivy populations from southern British Columbia to northern Oregon and determined 83% of them were made up of Atlantic ivy. With this project, our goal is to collect a large number of invasive ivy samples in Washington State to determine at as fine a scale as possible, what ivy species is invasive in the state and where it is growing."

Now go back up and click on the link to find out how you can participate.

Today's Everett Herald (11/25/17) also has a nice article on the project here:

State waging war with tenacious ivy

My personal battle with invasive ivy began more than 25 years ago when we first moved into our home in the northern part of Edmonds. The western part of our yard was a swath of ivy threatening to invade the whole yard. Our first order of business was to rip it out, which we successfully did. However, our neighbor to the west, loves to have the ivy trained along the chain-link fence that divides our respective properties and which surrounds their property. The neighbor regularly is out neatly trimming the ivy tendrils. The back of their property (and ours) borders a county park and so their ivy has over time crept a considerable distance into the park woods. The park also has several large areas of ivy desert and native trees festooned with the tenacious vine. The neighbor's ivy creeps into our yard as well and so about twice a year I'm ripping out the creeping tendrils and cutting the ivy flush against the common fence. This effort easily generates about five plastic barrels of yard waste. I put up with this because they are genuinely nice neighbors. But I passionately hate ivy.

Publicado el noviembre 25, 2017 07:18 TARDE por brownsbay brownsbay

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I saw that you located Lesser Calendine and I would be interested to remove them. I think it is on private property. Could you contact me at geraldine.saw@snoco.org. I am Geraldine Saw, the Coordinator from the Snohomish County Noxious Weed Control Board.

Publicado por magpierobin hace casi 2 años

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