NIIPP in the Future(2012 to be exact)

Cathy McGlynn, Coordinator, Northeast Illinois Invasive Plant Partnership

Potential Projects• Highest Priority Projects (Steering

Committee)• Additional Projects

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Questions to keep in mind

1) Is this project helpful to your organization?

2) Do you support the direction of NIIPP’s focus?

3) How do you see NIIPP partners contributing to the advancement of these projects?

Highest Priority Projects

Projects focused on eradication of small populations

Benefits: Measurable results and very clear impact

D. Eagan

Highest Priority Projects

Emergency fund for on-the-ground control work (possibly linked with Strike Team)

Benefits: Immediate response and prevention of spreadD. Maurer

Additional Projects

• Private landowner outreach and assistance

• Continued outreach and education to public

• Develop working relationships with nurseries and landscapers (including education and outreach)

Judziewicz

Additional Projects

• Transportation and roadside maintenance outreach and education

• Develop relationship with Volunteer Steward Network

• Increase on-the-ground work

Goose Lake Prairie Natural Area

Additional Projects

• Statewide invasive plant mapping• Regional aerial photomonitoring of

invasive plants

Silver Lake Conservation Area, McHenry County

Partner Suggested Project

Control and Management of Old Invaders on Private Property:

Benefits: Prevention of re-invasions, improved relationships with private landowners

D. Maurer

D.Maurer

Continued outreach and education to the public

Workshops, presentations, and media exposure about invasive plants

Benefits:• Prevention of invasions• Early detection of

invasive populations• Support for our mission

C.McGlynn

Develop working relationships with nurseries and landscapers

Staff workshops

Benefit: Informed inventory choices

Education and outreach for green industry consumers

Benefit: Informed purchases

D. Maurer

Develop working relationships with nurseries and landscapers

Promotion of native plants

Benefits: • low maintenance, • food source and shelter

for native wildlife, • less competition for

native plants

D.Maurer

Transportation and roadside maintenance outreach and education

Sharing BMPs and protocol

Benefit: • prevention of spread

and control and management of old invaders

• detection and control of new invaders

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Develop relationship with Volunteer Steward Network

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Benefits: • Many eyes on the

ground• Early Detection and

Rapid Response• Share BMPs• Considerable on-the-

ground control work

A. Cisneros, USFS

Increase on-the-ground control

Aggressively apply for funding

Benefits: • Support on-the-

ground control work• Distribute funds

through RFPs

C. McGlynn

Statewide invasive plant mapping

• New Invaders Watch Program joins EDDMapS and, along with River to River CWMA, NIIPP

• Reports from outside both regional CWMAs

Regional aerial photomonitoring of invasive plants

• Focus on three species: reed canary grass, common reed, and buckthorn

• One county at a time

• Use existing data

• Collect data continuously to assess change

And into year two we go….

Additional suggestions or questions?

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