- Dates
- 2016-06-28 – 2016-06-29
- Kind
- Workshop
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- conservationinvasive-species-and-ecological-stewardshipeducation
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
On June 28–29, 2016, Beaver Island hosted a two-day invasive-species workshop organized with CAKE CISMA and The Nature Conservancy. The announced program included identification and survey methods, herbicide and non-herbicide management, decontamination, and field training, with participation from multiple public and conservation organizations.
Evidence limits
The Association’s first-party notice establishes the workshop and its planned curriculum. It does not establish attendance, treatment actions, or subsequent control results. A July follow-up reported road-management responses to wild parsnip and Japanese knotweed concerns, but not measured control results.
Sources
- The Association announced a two-day workshop presented with CAKE CISMA and The Nature Conservancy, with participation from state, county, and conservation organizations. The program covered invasive-species identification, survey methods, herbicide and non-herbicide management, decontamination, and field training. The notice establishes the program, not attendance or later treatment results.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 10 · t010325
- The advance notice states the workshop’s capacity-building purpose and names presenters from MNFI, DNR, MDARD, CAKE, TNC, Little Traverse Conservancy, and related agencies. It confirms the planned public and field-training scope but not attendance or treatment results.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 10 · t010290
- A follow-up credited the county road crew with mowing wild parsnips before seed dispersal and described Japanese knotweed being left unmowed for planned September treatment. It demonstrates post-workshop public application and local observation, but is not a treatment log or independent ecological assessment.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 10 · t010521
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island hosts an invasive-species identification and management workshop, 2016”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-invasive-species-workshop-june-2016/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Association, “A workshop on invasive species,” Beaver Island Forum, June 20–27, 2016. (and 2 further sources listed on the page).
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