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Funding Program: Addressing Western IPM Issues

Project Title: Invasive Plant Inventory and Survey Methods for Land Managers: A Web Seminar Series

Project Director (PD): Elizabeth Galli-Noble [1]

Lead State: MT Lead Organization: Montana State University

Cooperating State(s): Idaho, Utah

Undesignated Funding: $36,950

Start Date: Jan-01-2009 End Date: Dec-31-2009

Pests Involved: invasive plants

Site/Commodity: United States/natural areas

Area of Emphasis: Development/implementation of IPM practices to manage invasive species.

Summary: Western land managers face many complex challenges associated with managing for desired vegetation in large landscapes. One such challenge is identifying the locations of newly arrived non-native invasive plant species as well as existing populations. This information is essential to developing an invasive plant plan or an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) plan with effective prevention, early detection-rapid response, and control strategies for wildland (non-agricultural) settings. To support land managers, we propose to offer an interactive web seminar series in real time on inventory and survey methods. The seminar series, developed for effective learning and presented by subject experts, will introduce field-tested methods that will help achieve IPM objectives. We will record the seminars and post them on the web to disseminate the information even further. A post-seminar evaluation will assess the value of the presentations and identify IPM knowledge gaps and needs. Objectives: 1. Provide an effective online learning environment where geographically dispersed land managers can learn more about inventory and survey methods and how the appropriate method can help achieve IPM objectives, and where they can engage in dialogue with scientists and peers. 2. Identify knowledge gaps and needs that affect implementation of inventory and survey methods for early detection-rapid response and management, and for other components of IPM. 3. Increase the dissemination of information on inventory and surveys methods by making the recorded seminars available on the Web.

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