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Purple Loosestrife Volunteer Survey Guide (Draft) |
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1.
First, use the Eastern
Chippewa Flowage Map to navigate to your survey section(s), and fill
in the Date and Survey
Section you are surveying on the Purple
Loosestrife Data Sheet. 2.
Once at the start of your
survey section you may start your survey by traveling slowly down the
shoreline. Travel in your
boat at a close proximity to the shoreline. 3.
Once you find a purple
loosestrife infestation you will stop traveling and fill in the
following information; (Make sure the Purple Loosestrife has been
identified properly.) ·
Mark
the Survey Section Map with
the Map Location # (ML). ·
On the Purple
Loosestrife Data Sheet the column ML
represents the map location number you used to identify the infestation. ·
In the row with the correct
ML number give a Location
Description. This is a
short description of the location of the infestation with in your survey
section. It will be used for
locating the infestation at a later date.
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Number of plants (Plant
#) will also be recorded in three categories: <50, 50-1000, or
>1000 (Falck 2000). ·
Beetle
presence will be recorded by
writing either yes (beetles
or beetle damage is present), no (no
beetles or beetle damage present), or did not check. Attempts
should be made to record whether or not there is beetle presence at an
infestation, unless the volunteer is unable to access the plants in a
safe manner. ·
Shoreline
type will be recorded as
either forest, bog, aquatic/cattails, lowland/swamp, or open/grassy. ·
Shoreline
will be classified as
Developed or Natural and recorded in the Shoreline Column using a
“D” or a “N”. Developed
shoreline is shoreline that is obviously adjacent to private property.
Natural shoreline is shoreline that is not. ·
Flower heads should be
removed at every site the volunteer is able to safely access the
infestation, and then recorded in the Removed
column as a yes (flower heads
were removed) or a no (flower
heads were not removed). This
will help prevent a large scale infestation and make future
control/eradication efforts much easier.
Also, make sure you put the any plant parts in a bag, and that
you either burn, control compost, or trash the removed plants otherwise
you may help spread the infestation. ·
Other information that will
prove useful to purple loosestrife management will be provided in the
“Notes” column (i.e.
clumped or individual plants, native vegetation, beetles present, beetle
damage, etc.) ·
If
other invasive plant species are present follow the same procedures as
above and highlight the data by writing the plant name in the margin of
the data sheet. 4.
Once you have completed all
information needed on the Purple
Loosestrife Data Sheet and marked the infestation on the Survey
Section Map you may continue down the shoreline of your survey
section. (Return to #3). 5.
Once completed with the
survey you may mail it back or contact |