[APWG] Use of heat (torches) on Myriophyllum aquaticum

[Wayne Tyson]

I have used torches, even making up a rig with a long handle and planned to make up a larger one out of a golf bag carrier (a useful application), but decided it was too slow, too ineffective, and too expensive. It also damages emergent seedlings, sporophytes, gametophytes, and other organisms essential to ecosystem recovery and effective long-term weed "control." 

WT
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Renee Brecht 
  To: apwg at lists.plantconservation.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 9:23 AM
  Subject: [APWG] Use of heat (torches) on Myriophyllum aquaticum


        Does anyone have any experience using heat (i.e. blow torches) on Myriophyllum aquaticum or have any thoughts on its potential effectiveness as a control?


        Thanks,


        Renée Brecht
        Associate Director
        Citizens United to Protect the Maurice River and its Tributaries 

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