Acadia National Park Exotic Plant Management Program 2004 Annual Summary
Langley GE. 2006. Acadia National Park Exotic Plant Management Program 2004 Annual Summary. Acadia National Park Natural Resource Report 2006-11. Acadia National Park Resource Management. Bar Harbor, Maine
Following taken from executive summary: 'Eight exotic plant species were managed in Acadia National Park in 2004. Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), a non-native invasive plant species, was actively managed on Mount Desert Island within Acadia National Park in 2004, as it has been since 1988 (...). Additionally, one L. salicaria populations outside park boundaries received some type of management. Only the Mount Desert Island portion of the park is known to contain purple loosestrife. Schoodic Peninsula, Isle au Haut, and other Park managed island remain free of this pest species.'... Loosestrife stems were sprayed with 1% glyphosate herbicide solution. ...'Seven other invasive species received some type of management in 2004: Coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara), garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata), shrub honeysuckle (Lonicera morrowii), foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), giant hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum), yellow iris (Iris pseudacorus), and lupine (Lupinus polyphyllus). ' Report details areas surveyed, managed, and the details of any management. Appendix A lists transect monitoring data and Appendix B lists UTM coordinates for purple loosestrife sites. /STUDY LOCATIONS:/ /MOUNT DESERT ISLAND/The Tarn/Bear Brook/Blackwoods/Breakneck Brook/Duck Brook outflow/Half Moon Pond/Kent Field Wetland/Breakneck Pond/Day Mountain/Jordan Stream/Seal Cove Road/Great Meadow/Compass Harbor/Witch Hole wetland/Visitor Center Wetland/Jackson Lab Service Road/Precipice Wetland/Kebo Brook/Great Meadow/Jordan Pond Nature Trail/Liscomb Pit/Wildwood Stables/ISLANDS/The Hop/ GIS CATEGORY 1: Appendix B lists coordinates for purple loosestrife sites.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Langley, Geneva
- Date of Issue
- 2006
- Publisher
- Acadia National Park Resource Management
- Units
- ACAD
- Keywords
- Bear Brook, Blackwoods, Breakneck Brook, Breakneck Pond, Compass Harbor, Day Mountain, Duck Brook outflow, Exotic, Exotic Species, Great Meadow, Half Moon Pond, Herbicides, Invasive Species, Islands, Jackson Lab Service Road, Jordan Pond Nature Trail, Jordan Stream, Kebo Brook, Kent Field Wetland, Liscomb Pit, Mount Desert Island, Permanent Plots, Plants, Population Control, Precipice Wetland, Seal Cove Road, The Hop, The Tarn, Vascular Plants, Visitor Center Wetland, Wetland, Wildwood Stables, Witch Hole wetland
See also
- 2011-2012 Bear Brook and Tarn Watersheds Invasive Exotic Plant Management Program summary
- 2013 Bear Brook and Tarn Watersheds Invasive Exotic Plant Management Program summary
- 8 Years of forest health monitoring in Acadia National Park
- Exotic Plant Management Team
- Invasive species trends in Northeast Temperate Network park forests
- Managing exotic plants on Bar Island, Acadia National Park, ME
- Managing glossy buckthorn in the Cromwell Brook Watershed of Acadia National Park
- Six years of intensive exotic plant management in Acadia National Park
- The Norway maple forest in Acadia National Park: Initial response to management