Sentences with phrase «park invasive plant»

An angler collected the creature on his fishing line earlier this month, according to the Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program (APIPP), who announced the discovery on Tuesday.

Here in our region, the Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program has taken the lead, and works with groups like the Nature Conservancy, the Adirondack Watershed Institute at Paul Smith's College and Lake George Land Conservancy.

Not exact matches

Park District officials will plant native trees and vegetation around the building to help clear - cut invasive species dominating the area.

Invasive plant species have become dominant in some sections, parking is limited, the trails do not meet Mass Audubon's current standards for accessibility, and the town - maintained storm water drainage system does not always function as designed.

Volunteers with Batavians for a Healthy River and Batavia Park District personnel recently cleared two dump trucks full of scrub and invasive plant clippings from the banks of Batavia Creek, a tributary stream of the Fox River.

Those trucks are filled with the invasive plant material removed by the crew using Diver Assisted Suction Harvesting, or DASH, a method approved for use in the Adirondack Park for the first time by the Adirondack Park Authority.

Park managers tend to target invasive weeds such as red vetch with herbicides because they can outcompete native plants.

Despite its biodiversity, the park is an extremely fragile ecosystem, constantly under threat from invasive plants, species loss, habitat fragmentation, climate change, and tourism.

Gain expertise on the native and invasive plants of the Bay Area, and learn to use your digital camera, smart phone, or GPS unit to report weed sightings to park managers via the Internet.

Wolfback Ridge >> The Park Stewardship program has focused on removing invasive plants to restore the Mission Blue butterfly habitat at this site in Marin County.

More than 1,400 neighbors and friends of the park have volunteered 40,000 hours toward removing invasive plants, salvaging native ones, collecting seed, installing protective fencing, and supporting trail construction.

How can a Park Stewardship summer program for high school students clear invasive plants along trails — and reveal pathways to careers in conservation?

Through community participation, the Park Stewardship program plants thousands of native wetland and upland plants, removes countless invasive species, monitors endangered species, and restores this spectacular landscape.

As the Exotic Plant Management Team for Katmai National Park, our job is to survey for invasive plants at areas of high visitor use within the pPark, our job is to survey for invasive plants at areas of high visitor use within the parkpark.

Katmai has relatively few invasive plants in the park and the Exotic Plant Management Team aims to control the spread and minimize the negative impacts that invasive species can have on native plant communiPlant Management Team aims to control the spread and minimize the negative impacts that invasive species can have on native plant communiplant communities.

Management Channel Islands National Park staff work in cooperation with private contractors, interns, and a large variety of volunteer groups to control or eliminate invasive plant species from the pPark staff work in cooperation with private contractors, interns, and a large variety of volunteer groups to control or eliminate invasive plant species from the parkpark.

I was unaware of the fact that Katmai had volcanoes and that invasive plants are affecting the national parks and spreading faster than a bear can run.

Help restore South Maui sand dunes, maintain an oceanside trail, pick up litter, and remove invasive plants from various public beach parks along the South Maui coast.

Invasive Plant Patrol April 11, 2018 Wednesday, 10 am - 2:30 pm Location: Marin County, Marin Headlands Help restore sensitive habitat while enjoying a hike on some of the most scenic trails in the park.

Invasive Plant Patrol April 18, 2018 Wednesday, 10 am - 2:30 pm Location: Marin County, Marin Headlands Volunteers hike park trails throughout Marin and remove invasive plants to restore critical Invasive Plant Patrol April 18, 2018 Wednesday, 10 am - 2:30 pm Location: Marin County, Marin Headlands Volunteers hike park trails throughout Marin and remove invasive plants to restore critical invasive plants to restore critical habitat.

Get to know the park trail systems and learn to identify plants, both native and invasive.

Acres of state park taken over by exotic invasive plants were restored to native shrubs, trees and grasses.

Point Reyes National Seashore Park Ranger Doug Hee put out a call for volunteers on Saturday, March 18, to «help the dune restoration team remove European searocket, an invasive plant» at Abbott's Lagoon in Point Reyes.

Perhaps it helped that Robert Moses once tried to improve the park on the cheap by planting plane trees, an invasive species that now dares sheet metal to look half as uniform.

Currently overgrown with invasive plant species that compete with native plants, the site is in a state of transition between its past as a railroad yard and its future as an urban state park.

NYC - based naturalists Gabriel Willow and David Burglead lead a revealing exploration through the Raoul Wallenberg Forest in Riverdale Park and Wave Hill's Abrons Woodland to see firsthand how human activity, invasive plants, and other factors have shaped the local ecology.