Protecting

Door County

from Invasive

Species

Kari Hagenow DCIST Coordinator

RRIP-IT-UP Northern Great Lakes Conference – Oct. 16, 2012

What is DCIST? A group of natural resource professionals and

interested public members that are concerned

with preserving Door County's native ecosystems

and biodiversity.

• Allows for county-wide invasives control

• Collaboration - integration of agency plans/programs and DCIST mission

• Recommendations for funding sources

• Technical assistance

Our Partnership

Our Mission DCIST seeks to halt the invasion of exotic non-

native plants by empowering citizens with the

education, tools and skills necessary to control

invasive species.

DCIST Provides: • Clearinghouse for information & IS reporting

• Equipment for work parties & landowners

• Information on area contractors

• Educational presentations and workshops

• Landowner visits

• Best management practices

• Communications and technical advice

Success Stories:

Detroit &Washington Islands

LNRP Grant - Phragmites Community coordinated with

funding assistance from

landowners.

Currently, treated by GLRI funding,

with continued vigilance by

landowners.

Phragmites – GLRI and Beyond!

DCIST/SWCD work in

Southern Door and

Sevastopol: More than 32

acres of shoreline and 16

acres of ROW.

Great Lakes Restoration Initiative:

approximately 300 acres treated within

Conservation Opportunity Areas of Door

County (three year project)

Wild Parsnip Southern Door: 62 ROW miles

and 12 acres of private land by

contractor, 10 acres by SWCD

staff and volunteers.

Northern Door: 2.6 ROW miles

and 17 acres treated by SWCD

staff and volunteers.

Washington Island Community

Meeting • Public meeting – DCIST presentation, Washington Island Parks Committee, and audience participation

• Site visits

• Plant identification

• Phragmites control follow-up on South shoreline

• Garlic mustard workshop

• COA Site Visit for GLRI Project

• Detroit Island Phragmites

Ecological need +

community interest +

available resources

= Good things!

Kari Hagenow

DCIST Coordinator

DCIST1@gmail.com

Khagenow@tnc.org

Check us out at

http://map.co.door.wi.us/swcd/invasive/

“On a global basis… the two great destroyers of biodiversity are, first habitat

destruction and second, invasion by exotic species.”

– E. O. Wilson, Harvard University Professor