2012 NORTH AMERICAN INVASIVE PLANT ECOLOGY
AND MANAGEMENT SHORT
COURSE
April
3, 2012. The date for the 2012 NAIPSC is rapidly approaching and organizers are
anticipating up to 40 participants will be in attendance to hear and interact with
the 14 instructors who have a wide range of expertise in invasive plant ecology
and management.
This
year’s participants at the NAIPSC will learn first-hand about the latest
research on invasive plant water use and the implications this can have on restoration
and other management activities in riparian and rangeland areas. Instructors
will discuss the effects of introduced common reed (Phragmites australis) and native eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana) on water resources
and neighboring plant and animal communities.
Also,
this year’s field site visits will be to privately owned land that is actively
being restored with prescribed burning, revegetation, and various other
techniques; a riparian area where research is being conducted on native plant stand
age and establishment effects on invasive plant species; and a rangeland where
techniques to identify and locate plants will be demonstrated using GPS/GIS
technology.
These
are just a two examples of the presentations, workshops, site visits, and
instructor-led discussion sessions that will be part of the 2012 NAIPSC. For
more information and registration details, go to the NAIPSC website. The
NAIPSC is open to graduate students, researchers, land managers, and policy
makers and has been approved for CEU and CCA credits, and graduate student
credits through the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Register
now! Space is limited!
