Clint
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Post by Clint on Apr 22, 2007 18:42:17 GMT
We are looking for pics of some bog plants to use for an educational project for the ICPS. Specifically, we are looking for :
Vaccinium oxycoccos (Small cranberry) Chamaedaphne calyculata (leatherleaf) Picea mariana (Black Spruce) Larix laricina (Tamarack) Lythrum salicaria (Purple Loosestrife) Typha angustifolia (Narrow Leaf Cattail) Phragmites australis (European Phragmites)
Please post any photos you feel comfortable sharing because if your photo is chosen, we'll need your permission to use it.
Photos must be clear and not too large to print on a standard sheet of paper. Photos must not violate our photo-size rules. Thumbnails are fine and are actually preferable.
Photos will be used exclusively for educational purposes.
Thanks in advance for anything you are able to contribute, and this should be fun for everyone!
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Post by pinglover on Apr 22, 2007 19:35:38 GMT
Good of you to include a request for introduced species that are invasive so that people can learn to identify them!
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Post by BarryRice on Apr 30, 2007 17:51:56 GMT
Hey JustLikeAPill, I would strongly recommend you NOT to use or encourage the use of Lythrum salicaria or Phragmites australis within the USA. These species escape to wildlands and have well-documented harmful impacts on native species such as carnivorous plants and bog turtles. However, if you are interested in using photos to describe that these are plants to be eradicated or otherwise avoided, I encourage you to look to the photo gallery for The Nature Conservancy's Global Invasive Species Initiative. One of their staffers is a photographer (uh, that is, me!), and I'd be happy to let you use images for your educational purposes. The link for the gallery is: tncweeds.ucdavis.edu/photos.htmlCheers Barry
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Post by Clint on Apr 30, 2007 17:58:51 GMT
That's why we need pictures of them, so that people will learn about invasive species and what they do to wetlands.
Thanks for your permission Barry, and call me Clint!
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Post by BarryRice on Apr 30, 2007 18:28:18 GMT
Hey Clint, Sure enough. By the way, I wrote a photo essay for a "success story" about Phragmites control that The Nature Conservancy is doing in Massachusetts, at a fen that has...among other things...at least five different CP: tncweeds.ucdavis.edu/success/ma001.htmlBarry
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Post by pinglover on May 1, 2007 0:44:50 GMT
For clarification purposes; Lythrum salicaria (Purple Loosestrife), Typha angustifolia (Narrow Leaf Cattail), and Phragmites australis (European Phragmites) are all introduced species that out-compete native vegetation all too successfully. They will be included as species in need of management. Probably should toss Phalaris arundinacea (Reed Canary Grass) in there too as that's showing up everywhere these days also.
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Post by Clint on May 1, 2007 0:59:46 GMT
Did you know that grass contains 5-meo-DMT? Irrelevant but cool trivia. I wouldn't put that on a worksheet for kids, though lmao.
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