Print Resources

Invasive Plants: Guide to Identification and the Impacts and Control of Common North American Species Kaufman and Kaufman Stackpole Press, 2007 Invasive Plants: Weeds of the Global Garden Edited by John M. Randall and Janet Marinelli Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 1996.

Web-based Resources
NYS Department of Environmental Conservation Advisory Invasive Plant List www.dec.ny.gov/animals/65408.html

Learn How to Save Our Trees!

Fact Sheets + Alternatives for Invasive Ornamental Plant Species, Edited by Timothy M. Abbey The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station and the Connecticut Invasive Plant Working Group, 2004 www.cipwg.uconn.edu/

Saturday March 16, 2013 from 10 am Noon

Bring your loppers, gloves and brush saws and meet at the parking lot of the Pound Ridge Town Park for a vine-cutting workshop with:
Japanese Barberry linked to Lyme Disease www.whitemtridgerunners.com/wmrr/news/wmrr-ticks1.htm Giant Hogweed Hotline ghogweed@ny.gov/animals/39809.html 845 256-3111 USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, CT office Identification sheets, down-loadable brochures and fact sheets, and links www.ct.nrcs.usda.gov/plants.html USDA PLANTS Database good source of up-to-date taxonomy www.plants.usda.gov Mile-a-Minute henri.newark.rutgers.edu/mam/id/id_ObsReport.html The Mile-a-Minute Project of the Hudson Valley Least Wanted fact sheets: Weeds Gone Wild Plant Conservation Alliances Alien Plant Working Group www.nps.gov/plants/alien/index.htm

Mistaken Identity? Invasive Plants and their Native Look-alikes An Identification Guide for the Mid-Atlantic Sarver, Treher, Wilson, Naczi, Kuehn www.nybg.org/files/scientists/rnaczi/Mistaken_Identity_Final.pdf

Native Alternatives to Invasive Plants Edited by C. Colston Burrell, Janet Marinelli and Bonnie Harper-Lore Brooklyn Botanic Garden 2006, 2007 An all-regions reference

Hotlines

Bob DelTorto of vinecutter.com

Emerald Ash Borer 866 322-4512

Eurasian Watermilfoil WATCH Note exact location, wrap plant fragment in wet paper towel, place in plastic bag, Call NY DEC Lake Services Section 518 402-8282 Insects Collect specimen in a jar, store in the freezer, notify an official. Asian Longhorned Beetle 866 702-9938

Jan 2013

HELP US RESTORE THE HEALTH AND NATURAL BEAUTY OF OUR TOWN!