an exotic plant?

["Tim Lewis" <tlewis@buncombe.main.nc.us>]

Josh, this was the person referred to as the State Weed Scientist on one
of the links to links below.  You also might call the extension but both
are more interested in crops than habitat of course.

Stratford Kay
Crop Science Department
North Carolina State University
4401-B Williams Hall - Box 7620
Raleigh, NC 27695
Phone: 919-515-5654
FAX: 919-515-5315
Email: skay@wolf.ces.ncsu.edu

Federal Interagency Committee for the Management of Noxious and Exotic
Weeds: Links to members and partners
http://refuges.fws.gov/ficmnewfiles/Links.html

Weeds Gone Wild:  Alien Plant Invaders of Natural Areas (includes plant
lists, spotlight on Porcelain Berry, English Ivy)
http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/

This page includes invasive plant primers including one to Yards &
Gardens (English Ivy) and links to federal and state programs .
https://www.denix.osd.mil/denix/Public/ES-Programs/Conservation/Invasive
/contents.html

Nature Conservancy:  http://tncweeds.ucdavis.edu/esadocs.html

Tim Lewis & Lori Unruh
Weaverville, NC
tlewis@buncombe.main.nc.us

> Lastly, during yesterday's walk, I found an interesting plant. Looked
> like a dead vine with milkweed pods on it. A friend offered a possible
> identification. I then found that, if his identification were correct,
> the plant is a dangerously aggressive European invader. The ID has yet
to
> be 100% confirmed, but if it is, are there authorities in NC to deal
with
> such occurrences, that would want to know about an invasion in
progress?
> I know that TLC and other such folks take action on their own lands,
but
> this was on state-owned Gamelands, do they worry about such things?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Josh
>
> Joshua S. Rose
> Duke University
> Department of Biology (Zoology, R.I.P.)
>
> jsr6@acpub.duke.edu
> http://www.duke.edu/~jsr6/
>