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Funding Program: Working Groups

Project Title: Working Group On Invasive Plants In Trade

Project Director (PD): Mark Renz [1]

Lead State: WI Lead Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Undesignated Funding: $20,000

Start Date: Mar-01-2015 End Date: Feb-29-2016

Pests Involved: invasive ornamental plants

Site/Commodity: natural areas, urban, residential, parks

Area of Emphasis: invasive plants

Summary: The Working Group on Invasive Plants in Trade is focused on the IPM strategy of prevention, through working to reduce the sales of ornamental invasive plants in the North Central United States. Ornamental invasive plants are a major threat to natural resources, residential areas, and agricultural lands, yet they are still legal to buy, sell, and plant. Our goal is to work with a diverse group of stakeholders to address the issue of invasive plants in trade and develop strategies to reduce their sale. Previous efforts have focused on discussing the impacts of ornamental invasive plants and how plants are selected for regulation in our region. For 2015 we propose to discuss sterile ornamental plant creation, stability over time, and regulation as cultivars of many invasive ornamental plants are being developed that are reported to produce no viable seed. We wish to explore the science behind sterile cultivars of invasive plants and how these should be regulated. To increase participants within the working group we propose to hold our meeting in conjunction with the North Eastern Plant Propagators Association annual conference in Cincinnati, Ohio. This conference is well attended by industry and likely will increase participation of those individuals. Information generated will be shared in written form and by conducting a webinar after the meeting with the goal of improving knowledge and trust among individuals involved in this issue which will eventually lead to a reduction in sale of these identified threats. Objectives: Hold a working group meeting (ACTIVITY 1) that will create a multi-directional flow of information that improves knowledge of how sterile cultivars of invasive ornamental plants are developed and how invasiveness is impacted between working group participants. Write and distribute a meeting report summarizing the working group meeting (ACTIVITY 2) that will create a multi-directional flow of information that improves knowledge of how sterile cultivars of invasive ornamental plants are developed and how invasiveness is impacted between non-working group participants. Hold a webinar that summarizes the results from the meeting (ACTIVITY 3) that increases understanding of sterile cultivar development for invasive ornamental plants and the risks or lack of risks they pose to natural areas by industry, natural resource managers, and state agency staff

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