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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Our native pokeweed is a beautiful plant that can rival bamboo in size and stature on a good site. The spring greens were often cooked and eaten in Appalachia,
but the mature foliage, berries and roots especially, are highly toxic. Kids will sometimes eat the attractive and juicy black berries or use them to make “ink” as I did as a child. Fortunately the berries are not highly toxic, but I wonder if planting something
that is poisonous will send up some red flags?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">As nasty as garlic mustard is, I would not want to see it replaced by poison ivy, native or not. Pokeweed is only poisonous if ingested.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> APWG [mailto:apwg-bounces@lists.plantconservation.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Marc Imlay<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 24, 2012 1:31 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> ficmnew@mail.afpmb.org; maipc@lists.maipc.org; apwg@lists.plantconservation.org; INVASIVES@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU; aliens-l@list.auckland.ac.nz<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [APWG] FW: Invasive Notes: Invasive Bamboo Wars Heat Up<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Subject: Bamboo Control with native pokeweed</span></strong><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">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.</span></strong><br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">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.</span></strong><br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Marc Imlay, PhD,</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Conservation biologist, Park Ranger Office</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">(301) 442-5657 cell</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:ialm@erols.com"><span style="font-weight:normal">ialm@erols.com</span></a></span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Natural and Historical Resources Division</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.pgparks.com"><span style="font-weight:normal">www.pgparks.com</span></a></span></strong><br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">From: Jorge Bogantes Montero [</span></strong></span></b><a href="mailto:jmontero@anacostiaws.org"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">mailto:jmontero@anacostiaws.org</span></strong></a><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">]</span></strong><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 11:00 AM</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">To: Marc Imlay</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">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;
<a href="mailto:Marc.Imlay@mncppc.microsoftonline.com"><span style="font-weight:normal">Marc.Imlay@mncppc.microsoftonline.com</span></a></span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Subject: Re: WMATA invasives contact?</span></strong><br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Hi Marc,</span></strong><br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">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.</span></strong><br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">In some cases nature can help you if you know how to play with it. Especially the aggresive native plants ;)</span></strong><br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Thanks,</span></strong><br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jorge</span></strong><br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sent from my iPhone</span></strong><br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">On Oct 5, 2012, at 6:22 AM, Marc Imlay <<a href="mailto:ialm@erols.com"><span style="font-weight:normal">ialm@erols.com</span></a>> wrote:</span></strong><br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">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?</span></strong><br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Marc Imlay, PhD,</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Conservation biologist, Park Ranger Office</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">(301) 442-5657 cell</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:ialm@erols.com"><span style="font-weight:normal">ialm@erols.com</span></a></span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Natural and Historical Resources Division</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.pgparks.com"><span style="font-weight:normal">www.pgparks.com</span></a></span></strong><br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">-----Original Message-----</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">From: john peter thompson [</span></strong></span></b><a href="mailto:ipetrus@msn.com"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">mailto:ipetrus@msn.com</span></strong></a><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">]</span></strong><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 8:53 AM</span></strong><br>
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</span></b><a href="http://ipetrus.blogspot.com/2012/10/invasive-bamboo-wars-heat-up.html"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">http://ipetrus.blogspot.com/2012/10/invasive-bamboo-wars-heat-up.html</span></strong></a><br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">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</span></strong><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">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</span></strong></span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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