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Hi I’m Kateri Tonyan and I work for Colorado State University and work at Avon Park Air Force Range. I am presenting on behalf of Cheryl Millett who had another engagement. As it regards to our CISMA I am the social media chair and secretary. The Heartland CISMA includes 5 counties in central Florida. We have a dynamic steering committee that is key to coming up with key projects. This talk will focus on how we are organized and communicate, and what kinds of work we’ve done together since our last update in mid-2017.
Steering Committee
Frequency: every other month
Where/how: was in person only, adding call-in increased # of participants
Participants: 22 total, 14 organizations, 6 only by phone, average 8/meeting increased to 9/meeting w/those on phone
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Our organizational structure is very informal: if you show up to a steering committee meeting and/or help put together a project, you’re a leader. We met 7 times last year and typically meet more frequently when big projects like a workshop are coming up, and less frequently over the winter holidays and during summer vacation time. We were meeting in person only, which is very energizing and productive, but we added call-in capability thanks to our Extension and County partners, which helped increased the # of participants to include those who couldn’t manage the travel time.
Communications
Where/how: email, social media, website
Frequency: 14 emails over last year to ~300 people
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This year we sent 14 emails (could explain what kind of info is in them if you want) to ~300 people on our email lists. I don’t know if it’s worth saying upfront, but I don’t use MailChimp or Constant Contact or anything like that because I found myself spending too much time on formatting, so I have 4 email distribution lists and resend the email with me as the recipient and the list blind cc’d. The tradeoff is that I spend more time managing the list (MailChimp or Constant Contact will do that for you), but deleting and adding people takes less time for me than formatting does. We have a facebook page, Instagram and twitter accounts and of course the Heartland CISMA website through FISP.
We love workshops!
EDRR Field Workshop• Avon Park Air Force
Range • January 9, 2018 • 19 participants• ID, treatment, and
decontamination information about new invasive species in the area
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This EDRR Field workshop was the first of 2018. I hosted it at APAFR covering Hyptis brevipes and Rhodomyrtus tomentosa. The idea behind these field workshops are to get out of classrooms and see the species in the field in their actual habitat. This gives people a good look at healthy, unhealthy, heavily infested, lightly infested, different habitats, etc. with in-the-field identification. This was our second EDRR field workshop.
We really love workshops!
8th annual Central Florida Invasive Species Workshop • Polk County’s Circle B
Bar Reserve• April 25, 2018 • 50+ participants• All talk pdfs and
handouts on website
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We hosted our 8th Annual Central FL Invasive species workshop in April. Topics included giant smuttgrass, mapping invasives approaches and technology, adaptive management, bamboo and exotic animals you should know. A record-breaking 130 species were featured in the "Garden of Evil" to help participants learn how to identify invasive plants in the Heartland CISMA and distinguish them from native look-a-likes at the 8th annual workshop. We’re fortunate to have FWC’s Mike Sowinski in our CISMA because he’s the force behind this golden nugget featured in all our workshops. Please don’t try to steal him, but we’d love to have you attend!
We love workshops so much!
Collaborated with the Forest Stewardship Program for an Invasive Species Workshop• Okeechobee
Extension Service Office
• September 20, 2018
• 32 attendees
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An excellent resource for all CISMAs is Chris Demers of the Forest Stewardship Program because he will help put on an invasive workshop for two CISMAs each year. We were fortunate to have him work with us on this. He handles the signup, food, communications with presenters, and puts together a booklet for attendees with pdfs of all the talks and handouts. His goal is to assist private landowners, so he has a great email list to reach out to do that. Of the 32 attendees, there was a good mix of natural resource professionals and land managers from the public and private sectors. All said they gained considerable or some new knowledge and skills and will put the information to work on the lands they manage.
We love workshops more than you will ever know!
Collaborated with the FPU FIPR for an Invasive Weed Management and Habitat Restoration Workshop • November 8, 2018• 42 participants • All talk pdfs and
handouts on website
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We collaborated with Dr. Steve Richardson, Florida Polytechnic University's Florida Institute for Phosphate Research, at who’s eager to share his career-long wealth of research into weed management approaches, with the goal of habitat restoration. FIPR works with phosphate mining operations, so they are familiar with weeds. He brought together a distinguished panel of experts to share information and spark discussion to address challenging questions from participants. This photo shows Nancy Bissett of The Natives discussing restoration lessons learned. Eighty-nine percent of respondents to a post-workshop survey were satisfied or highly satisfied with the value of the program (with none dissatisfied), and one remarked a gain in "better potential management tactics for control of grasses, as well as the emphasized value and effectiveness of restoration plans following herbicide applications.
Workdays
National Public Lands Day • Circle B Bar Reserve• September 15, 2018 • 20 volunteers • Removed invasive Caesar
weed and learned decontamination practices
• Door prizes of native seeds were gifted thanks to Bok Tower Gardens
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We decided to participate in National Public lands day so this year we hosted a workday at Circle B Bar Reserve to remove Caesar’s weed and taught decontamination practices. This originally was going to be a Weed Wrangle™ but we quickly realized you can’t just host one because it is trademarked and there are steps that need to be taken in order to host one. This inspired FISP getting the rights to host a Weed Wrangle™ across the state of Florida which is coming up on March 2, 2019.
Prevention in with EDRR and control
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At all of our events and workshops we always weave in prevention and decontamination with discussions of EDRR and control.
Outreach
Kateri Tonyan, CSU-CEMML at Avon Park Air Force Range, presented on behalf of the Heartland CISMA on “Invasive Exotics in Central Florida; Identification, Prevention and Decontamination” to a Master Logger CLE training in Sebring on October 25, 2017.
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We did some out of the box outreach this year. I presented on behalf of the CISMA at a Master Loggers CLE workshop. This is similar to our CEU certs we get at workshops but we lots of emphasis on safety. So I did an introduction to our CISMA, plant ID, prevention and decontamination. I was really excited to cover prevention and decontamination because they get contracted and travel all over the state. I tried to emphasize how important they are to the spread or non-spread of invasives.
Outreach
Shannon Carnevale of UF/IFAS presented, “A Perfect Match: Increasing Impact in Invasive Species Outreach through Extension and Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area Collaboration” at the 20th
International Conference on Aquatic Invasive Speciesin Ft Lauderdale on October 23, 2018, cowritten byCheryl Millett, The Nature Conservancy.
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Our wonderful Polk county UF IFAS extension agent, Shannon Carnevale, presented at the 20th International Conference on Aquatic Invasive Species in October emphasizing how when Extension and CISMAs help each other they can be more effective and do more. She has also helped us expand on our communication capabilities with call-in and/or video conferencing at steering committee meetings as one example of being more effective.
Northeast Texas Conservation Delivery Network Cypress/Caddo Lake Basin
February 12, 2018
• What are the benefits of forming a CISMA?
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The Northeast Texas Conservation Delivery Network Cypress/Caddo Lake Basin subcommittee wanted to learn more about forming a CISMA to build on their work growing biocontrol for aquatic weed management (giant salvinia) and exploring detector dogs for invasive mussel veligers. They invited Cheryl Millett to share the experience of Florida CISMAs and offer advice about starting their own at a meeting on February 12, 2018. This area was heavily impacted by Hurricane Harvey in August 2017, and that helped spread invasives in the region. An article written for Earthzine about FL CISMAs (https://earthzine.org/effectively-address-invasive-species-threats-join-or-start-a-local-cisma/) inspired them to reach out.
Outreach- Texas connections
Galveston Bay
January 22, 2019
• What are the benefits of forming a CISMA?
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That was last year. This year, the Houston Advanced Research Center wants to learn more about forming a CISMA to build on their work with partners addressing invasive species issues in Galveston Bay. They invited Cheryl Millett to share the experience of Florida CISMAs and offer advice about starting their own at a webinar on January 22, 2019. The FL CISMA model is inspiring others!
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Each year we put together an annual report with highlights and photos of Heartland CISMA events and activities from throughout the year- this is an example from 2017… Our 2018 is currently being created.
@HeartlandCISMA@HCISMA
HeartlandCISMA
www.Floridainvasives.org/heartland
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Our website contains all of the presentations from our workshops (going back to 2011), flyers from our events, species information and educational resources. Our “projects” page contains the majority of our materials. We are on all the socials and we try to keep everyone updated with our events, steering committee meetings, workshops and current invasive species news. Please like or follow us!
Join in!
• Next steering committee meeting Tue., February 5th, 10am-noon, Polk Extension Office
• NISAW• pre-FWC Working Group ranking meeting prep via
Zoom?• April 24th: 9th annual Central Florida Invasive Species
Workshop • Revising the EDRR list after input from FWC• Fall aquatic/grasses workshop?
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This is what we have so far for 2019. If anyone has any questions or comments I can take them now.
