False Brome (Brachypodium sylvaticum) on May 9, 2010
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EDRR Status: Local expert notified
Description of specimen
pocket of false brome very near trails #4, and #2 on the backside of Mt Pisgah. Seems like a good place to do some targeted removal along trails so that hikders and horse don't move it around.
I know that local NGOs like Friends of Buford Park are aware of this but I took some GPS stamped pictures that I thought might be useful.
Commentary
Expert Reviewer
Tania Siemens
WISE Program Coordinator (Watershed and Invasive Species Education)
Oregon Sea Grant Extension
Oregon State University
tania.siemens@oregonstate.edu
541-914-0701
Thanks so much for your report of false brome at Mt. Pisgah and Howard Buford Park. I will forward this to Friends of Buford Park because I know they are actively waging a battle against false brome in the area. I am sure they will appreciate your "heads up" in case they were not aware of that site. Your photographs are excellent and indeed very useful. Thanks so much, and I'll let you know the outcome!
Tania
Tania Siemens
Invasive Species Early Detection and Rapid Response Coordinator
The Nature Conservancy
WISE Program Coordinator (Watershed and Invasive Species Education)
Oregon Sea Grant Extension
tania.siemens@oregonstate.edu
541-914-0701
Tania Siemens
May 21, 2010, 4:40 a.m.
The Friends of Buford Park Stewardship crew flamed the Trail 2 tread corridor above the powerline this last week. This section of Trail 2 has been treated with weedeaters (more crew work) and glyphosate (OR Department of Agriculture Noxious Weed division) for the last three years and shows great changes for the better. This Spring we began reseeding the few off trail areas that needed revegetating with native seeds from our Nursery.
We will be flaming and hand treating the powerline access road (Trail 46) this next week. This area and the BPA ROW has been treated for two previous years with the help of BPA.
Doug's photos seem to be taken along Trail 4. This trail has been treated with weedeaters in late spring and glyphosate in the fall of the previous two years. Off-trail in this area has been glyphosate treated by a contract crew for a couple of years. The BRASYL populations have been significantly reduced but the survivors are continuing to contribute to plants along the trail.
We will attempt to flame the trail 4 population with flame or hand removal within the next couple of weeks
We will not be spraying during the spring to avoid hurting the natives. In springs past we have relied on weedeating the tread at the point the plants were in flower so they wouldn't mature seeds that year. Now we are trying to flame both trails 2 and 4 while the moisture conditions allow. Hand weeding (hoe or sod sycle) is in our tool box but is costly to staff and difficult in gravelly tread. So we are concentrating on flame treatment.
Thanks for checking on the mountain.
Hal Hushbeck
Stewardship Assistant
Friends of Buford Park
Tania Siemens
May 22, 2010, 2:30 a.m.