Скачать или смотреть Untying the Knot: Community-Based Scientific Management of Knotweed in The Mad River Valley

Increasingly common flood events are dispersing introduced highly competitive species, such as knotweed, across the landscape. Managing this spread and limiting the harm that knotweed causes is a tall task, but the Conservation Commissions from the towns of Warren, Waitsfield and Fayston in the Mad River Valley have developed a management approach that is yielding results. Thanks to scientific monitoring, robust community engagement, creative solutions, a new GIS system, and good old-fashioned persistence and determination, the group is making headway: not only keeping knotweed in check, but reducing its prevalence within their watershed and restoring habitat previously dominated by knotweed.

In this webinar we’ll hear from the leaders of this program, along with a few of the partners who have helped bring their expertise to bear on the problem. They’ll cover the specific steps they’ve taken to build and sustain this community effort and pass along advice for those interested in getting similar efforts going in their communities.

Presenters include:

Walt Poleman, director of UVM’s Field Naturalist Program and Ecological Planning Laboratory
Jito Coleman, chair, Warren Conservation Commission
Andrea Henderson, co-chair, Fayston Conservation Commission
David Moroney, Field Naturalist Program graduate and our GIS coordinator
Curt Lindberg, chair, Waitsfield Conservation Commission

This webinar originally aired via Zoom on February 26, 2025.

Resources:
Resources from New Hampshire Department of Agriculture, Markets & Food: https://vlt.org/wp-content/uploads/20... and https://vlt.org/wp-content/uploads/20...
Video about the UVM Ecological Planning Lab and their knotweed work:    • The Ecological Planning Laboratory  
Three Town Conservation Commissions: https://conservation.warrenvt.org/, https://faystonvt.com/departments-doc..., https://www.waitsfieldvt.gov/boards-m...
The Knotweed Project on Instagram:   / madriverknotweed  
Brave Little State podcast episode featuring the Knotweed Project: https://www.vermontpublic.org/podcast...
Vermont Invasives Knotweed Overview: https://vtinvasives.org/invasive/knot...
Paper: "Invasive Japanese knotweed and related knotweeds as catalysts for streambank erosion" https://vlt.org/wp-content/uploads/20...
Paper: "Assessing the relative impacts and economic costs of Japanese knotweed management methods": https://vlt.org/wp-content/uploads/20...