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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I enjoy reading about the restoration challenges
from our colleagues on the East Coast; especially when the discussion involves your
natives that, as in the case of pokeweed, are newly emerging invasives we are
expending resources on to control here. Observing the rapid spread of
pokeweed in the <st1:City w:st="on">Portland</st1:City> (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on">Oregon</st1:State></st1:place>) Metro region and its significant
underground biomass, I have no doubt that it could be a strong competitor against
whatever bamboo you’re dealing with (<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Phyllostachys
</span></i>sp<i><span style='font-style:italic'>.</span></i>?). <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Also, when I began researching the threat
to human health from pokeweed a couple years back, I could find only one <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>documented</span></i> instance of a fatality due to
ingestion. Does anyone from pokeweed’s native range have any other
information, anecdotal or otherwise, to support or refute the notion that
pokeweed is a significant threat to human health?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thanks in advance,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><b><font size=3
color=green face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>Dominic
Maze</span></font></b></strong><font color=green><span style='color:green'> | </span></font><font
size=2 color=gray face=Calibri><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri;
color:gray'>Invasive Species Coordinator/Biologist </span></font><font
color=green><span style='color:green'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=gray
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:gray'>City
of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Portland</st1:place></st1:City>
Environmental Services<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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w:st="on"><font size=2 color=gray face=Calibri><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Calibri;color:gray'>1120 SW 5th Avenue</span></font></st1:address></st1:Street><font
size=2 color=gray face=Calibri><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri;
color:gray'>, Room 1000<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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w:st="on"><font size=2 color=gray face=Calibri><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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color:gray'>, <st1:State w:st="on">Oregon</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode w:st="on">97204</st1:PostalCode></span></font></st1:place><font
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face=Calibri><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:gray'>p:
(503) 823-4899<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Calibri><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:gray'>f:
(503) 823-5344</span></font><font color=green><span style='color:green'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Calibri><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:gray'><a
href="mailto:dominic.maze@portlandoregon.gov">dominic.maze@portlandoregon.gov</a></span></font><font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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</span></font><font color=gray><span style='color:gray'><a
href="http://www.portlandonline.com/bes/index.cfm?c=45696"><font size=2
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>www.portlandonline.com/bes/invasives</span></font></a></span><o:p></o:p></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> APWG
[mailto:apwg-bounces@lists.plantconservation.org] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Robert Layton Beyfuss<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, October 25, 2012
7:46 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Marc Imlay;
ficmnew@mail.afpmb.org; maipc@lists.maipc.org;
apwg@lists.plantconservation.org; INVASIVES@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU;
aliens-l@list.auckland.ac.nz<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [APWG] FW: Invasive
Notes: Invasive Bamboo Wars Heat Up</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;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 <st1:place w:st="on">Appalachia</st1:place>,
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></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;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. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>Bob<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> APWG
[mailto:apwg-bounces@lists.plantconservation.org] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Marc Imlay<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, October 24, 2012
1:31 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></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><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [APWG] FW: Invasive
Notes: Invasive Bamboo Wars Heat Up<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><br>
</span></font><strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Subject:
Bamboo Control with native pokeweed</span></font></b></strong><b><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><br>
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<strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>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 <st1:State w:st="on">Maryland</st1:State> Native Plant
Society in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Towson</st1:place></st1:City>
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></font></b></strong><br>
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<strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>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></font></b></strong><br>
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<strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Marc Imlay, PhD,</span></font></b></strong><br>
<strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Conservation
biologist, Park Ranger Office</span></font></b></strong><br>
<strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>(301) 442-5657 cell</span></font></b></strong><br>
<strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'> <a
href="mailto:ialm@erols.com"><span style='font-weight:normal'>ialm@erols.com</span></a></span></font></b></strong><br>
<strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Natural and
Historical Resources Division</span></font></b></strong><br>
<strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>The
Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning
Commission</span></font></b></strong><br>
<strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'><a
href="http://www.pgparks.com"><span style='font-weight:normal'>www.pgparks.com</span></a></span></font></b></strong><br>
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<strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></font></b></strong><br>
<br>
<strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>From: Jorge
Bogantes Montero [</span></font></b></strong></span></font></b><a
href="mailto:jmontero@anacostiaws.org"><strong><b><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>mailto:jmontero@anacostiaws.org</span></font></b></strong></a><strong><b><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>]</span></font></b></strong><b><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><br>
<strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Sent: Friday,
October 05, 2012 11:00 AM</span></font></b></strong><br>
<strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>To: Marc Imlay</span></font></b></strong><br>
<strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>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></font></b></strong><br>
<strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Subject: Re: WMATA
invasives contact?</span></font></b></strong><br>
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<strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Hi Marc,</span></font></b></strong><br>
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<strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>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></font></b></strong><br>
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<strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>In some cases
nature can help you if you know how to play with it. Especially the aggresive
native plants ;)</span></font></b></strong><br>
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<strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Thanks,</span></font></b></strong><br>
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<strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Jorge</span></font></b></strong><br>
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<strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Sent from my iPhone</span></font></b></strong><br>
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<strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>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></font></b></strong><br>
<br>
<strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>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></font></b></strong><br>
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<strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Marc Imlay, PhD,</span></font></b></strong><br>
<strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Conservation
biologist, Park Ranger Office</span></font></b></strong><br>
<strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>(301) 442-5657 cell</span></font></b></strong><br>
<strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'> <a
href="mailto:ialm@erols.com"><span style='font-weight:normal'>ialm@erols.com</span></a></span></font></b></strong><br>
<strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Natural and
Historical Resources Division</span></font></b></strong><br>
<strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>The
Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning
Commission</span></font></b></strong><br>
<strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'><a
href="http://www.pgparks.com"><span style='font-weight:normal'>www.pgparks.com</span></a></span></font></b></strong><br>
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<strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>-----Original
Message-----</span></font></b></strong><br>
<strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>From: john peter
thompson [</span></font></b></strong></span></font></b><a
href="mailto:ipetrus@msn.com"><strong><b><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>mailto:ipetrus@msn.com</span></font></b></strong></a><strong><b><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>]</span></font></b></strong><b><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><br>
<strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Sent: Wednesday,
October 17, 2012 8:53 AM</span></font></b></strong><br>
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</span></font></b><a
href="http://ipetrus.blogspot.com/2012/10/invasive-bamboo-wars-heat-up.html"><strong><b><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>http://ipetrus.blogspot.com/2012/10/invasive-bamboo-wars-heat-up.html</span></font></b></strong></a><br>
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<strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>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></font></b></strong><b><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><br>
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<strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>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></font></b></strong></span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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