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<P><BR><FONT face=Arial><STRONG>Subject: Bamboo Control with native
pokeweed<BR><BR><BR>Anacostia Watershed Society treated a bamboo patch at
Magruder Woods in Hyattsville, Maryland, several years ago. Next year all
the bamboo was still dead. However, the following year the patch was covered
with new bamboo shoots. Last year and the year before I observed that the bamboo
was gone. At the Fall conference of the Maryland Native Plant Society in Towson
on September 29, 2012 I asked Jorge Bogantes with AWS how they did this. He told
me that they successfully used native American Pokeweed. AWS found out that
about 5% of the bamboo was not killed by the pokeweed and had to be cut
down.<BR><BR><BR><BR>I suggest we experiment this year with controlling bamboo
patches we have cut down this year with pokeweed. We can go out soon to the open
space habitats where we are controlling bamboo and identify which ones have
pokeweed? Then we can treat half of the patches but leave the other half alone
and see if resurgent pokeweed outcompetes the bamboo. The bamboo may need
one year foliar treatment for the pokeweed to work.<BR><BR><BR><BR>Marc Imlay,
PhD,<BR>Conservation biologist, Park Ranger Office<BR>(301) 442-5657
cell<BR> ialm@erols.com<BR>Natural and Historical Resources
Division<BR>The Maryland-National Capital
Park and Planning
Commission<BR>www.pgparks.com<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>From:
Jorge Bogantes Montero [</STRONG></FONT><A
href="mailto:jmontero@anacostiaws.org"><FONT
face=Arial><STRONG>mailto:jmontero@anacostiaws.org</STRONG></FONT></A><FONT
face=Arial><STRONG>]<BR>Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 11:00 AM<BR>To: Marc
Imlay<BR>Cc: Sheila Salo; Craig Tupper; Cynthia Robinson; Dan Smith; Dave &
Casey Kneipp; Dave Rapp; Laila Riazi; Marian Dombroski; Matt T. Salo; Michael
Callahan; RJ Eldridge; Marc.Imlay@mncppc.microsoftonline.com<BR>Subject: Re:
WMATA invasives contact?<BR><BR>Hi Marc,<BR><BR><BR><BR>After I sprayed the
bamboo we planted trees and then noticed a resurgence of pokeweed which I know
is weedy. So I just left it alone and it actually inhibited the bamboo from
massively regrowing. I know I just have to control (with machetes) of the shoots
that have made it to grow tall.<BR><BR><BR><BR>In some cases nature can help you
if you know how to play with it. Especially the aggresive native plants
;)<BR><BR><BR><BR>Thanks,<BR><BR><BR><BR>Jorge<BR><BR>Sent from my
iPhone<BR><BR><BR>On Oct 5, 2012, at 6:22 AM, Marc Imlay <ialm@erols.com>
wrote:<BR><BR>I can come late in October for the bamboo. Anacostia Watershed
Society spread out the native poke weed over bamboo that had come back after
being treated a year or two before at Magruder Woods. It outcompeted most of the
shoots. We may want to try this as an experiment in the Spring for any that
survive the spraying. Jorge, would you like to describe and share this poke weed
project?<BR><BR><BR><BR>Marc Imlay, PhD,<BR>Conservation biologist, Park Ranger
Office<BR>(301) 442-5657 cell<BR> ialm@erols.com<BR>Natural and Historical
Resources Division<BR>The Maryland-National
Capital Park and Planning
Commission<BR>www.pgparks.com<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>-----Original
Message-----<BR>From: john peter thompson [</STRONG></FONT><A
href="mailto:ipetrus@msn.com"><FONT
face=Arial><STRONG>mailto:ipetrus@msn.com</STRONG></FONT></A><FONT
face=Arial><STRONG>]<BR>Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 8:53
AM<BR><BR></STRONG></FONT><A
href="http://ipetrus.blogspot.com/2012/10/invasive-bamboo-wars-heat-up.html"><FONT
face=Arial><STRONG>http://ipetrus.blogspot.com/2012/10/invasive-bamboo-wars-heat-up.html</STRONG></FONT></A><BR><BR><BR><FONT
face=Arial><STRONG>As I have been saying for about 20 years now, the result of a
concerted attack on any effective national policy will be the rise of a
fragmented mosaic of mini policies and here they come<BR><BR>There is a
substantial private property liability case embedded in this. Insurance
companies have banded together to fight the lone woman leading the charge who is
pleading her case successfully so far without a lawyer. The insurance companies
have been repeatedly reprimanded by the judge for their unprofessional and
actions that may be subject to contept citations from the bench in the case. At
one point the judge threatened to have the CEOs of three insurance companies
digging bamboo personally if their lawyers did not stop their attempts to run
rough shod over the legal propcess<BR></STRONG></FONT></P></BODY></HTML>