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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Submitted 2.28.11 for APWG email discussion list<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>ANNOUNCING . . .<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>‘Natural Areas Herbicides Working Group’<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Introduction<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>An effort is underway to establish a working group for the registration of herbicides for natural areas’. Our goal is to improve our collective ability to control noxious weeds and invasive plants. The Working Group is needed because relatively few herbicide products and active ingredients are available for use in natural areas and similar settings. (While a few product labels specify ‘natural areas’, most of the products employed in weed management in natural areas are those labeled for use in noncrop areas and rangeland.) With the participation and cooperation of the IR-4 Project, registrants, federal departments and agencies, land grant universities, and other interested parties it is hoped that we can secure additional noncrop area and rangeland uses. The IR-4 Project is a USDA-funded entity with over forty years of experience in facilitating pesticide use registrations in specialty crops and ornamentals. [See </span><a href="http://ir4.rutgers.edu/"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>http://ir4.rutgers.edu/</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Expected benefits of such new uses are one or more of the following: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>• Improved control of targeted invasive plants or priority noxious weed species <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>• Reduced environmental impacts compared to current options<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>• Modes or sites of action new to rangeland, natural areas, noncrop areas including vegetated <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> rights-of-way, and related settings<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>There are other benefits or characteristics of interest that might be pursued such as:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>• Label language that allows application up to the water’s edge or near water<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>• Grazing tolerances; shorter grazing intervals<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>• Shorter preplant intervals (e.g., for revegetation, restoration, infilling, and over-seeding <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> contexts)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Objectives<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The objectives of the Working Group will be determined by its members, but are likely to include:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>• Serving as an action center whereby participants can facilitate registrations of chemical products for terrestrial uses<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>• Serving as a forum for soliciting input from stakeholders and for screening product suggestions and establishing priorities<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>• Securing the funding necessary to secure clearances through US EPA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Participants sought<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>We invite APWG members to consider participating in the Working Group. Those who can contribute some time and expertise or other resources to the effort are encouraged to contact us about becoming involved. We also welcome individuals who can only serve in a fairly limited or advisory capacity, as well as those who just want to be kept informed of the Working Group’s activities. Most any level of involvement or commitment is welcome.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Perhaps the most apt way for APWG members to be involved is to contribute examples of weed control scenarios in which currently available products are less than satisfactory.</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> In the future, we may have a preferred format or standardized form; but at this point, we welcome brief, informal submissions via email. For those of you who are weed scientists, biochemists, and the like, we are also seeking examples of potential solutions or improvements (efficacy, reduced risk, lower cost, shorter residual, shorter grazing interval, etc.) offered by particular products or active ingredients that currently are not labeled for use in rangeland, noncrop areas, rights-of-way, natural areas, wildlands, wildlife areas, and other related settings. It is these examples that the Working Group will review and use as a starting point for prioritizing our efforts.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>To prospective members or advisors: where it would be helpful, kindly provide some background or explanatory information about your interests, expertise, and possible contributions in your response. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>I’d be happy to provide additional information.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br clear=all style='page-break-before:auto'></span><div class=WordSection2><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>John Vickery<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>jvickery_[at]_mcg.net</span><span class=style91><span style='color:windowtext;font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div><span class=style91><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-weight:normal'><br clear=all style='page-break-before:auto'></span></span><div class=WordSection3><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>(</span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Natural Areas Specialist, Denver Natural Areas Program)</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br clear=all style='page-break-before:always'></span><div class=WordSection4><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>________end, APWG announcement<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>John Vickery<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Denver, CO<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>719 359 6491<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>