Invasive Plant Management in Kenai Fjords National Park Seward, Alaska Summer 2007 Field Season Report
Wetherbee H and US National Park Service, Kenai Fjords National Park and Preserve. 2007. Invasive Plant Management in Kenai Fjords National Park Seward, Alaska Summer 2007 Field Season Report. Seward, AK
2007 marks the fourth consecutive year of systematic inventory, monitoring and control of exotic plants in Kenai Fjords National Park (KEFJ). Data collected during the 2007 summer field season documented the continued spread of exotic plants and control efforts by park staff and volunteers. Since 2003, resource managers at KEFJ have manually controlled non-native plant populations in the Exit Glacier area. The most current proposed Exotic Vegetation Management Plan for KEFJ (Martin 2003) focuses only on the Exit Glacier area. Infestations have since been documented and controlled in coastal areas of the park as well. In 2004, the NPS Alaska Exotic Plant Management (AKEPMT) team partnered with KEFJ to document weed infestations and incorporate the data into a regional database, joining KEFJ to a larger network of exotic plant managers. Monitoring and collection is now conducted according to a regional data collection protocol (Appendix 1). One Biological Science Technician at KEFJ, partially funded by the AKEPMT, spent the 2007 summer field season monitoring documented infestation sites, mapping new infestations, and coordinating manual control efforts in high-priority areas.
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Authors
- Wetherbee, Heather; US National Park Service, Kenai Fjords National Park and Preserve
- Date of Issue
- 2007-08
- Units
- KEFJ
- Keywords
- Absence (Biodiversity), Control, Distribution (Biodiversity), Exotic, Invasive, Management, Plant, Presence (Biodiversity), Vegetation