be a responsible gardener it is your choice what to plant, choose wisely
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Be a responsible gardener
It is your choice what
to plant,
choose wisely
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Definitions
• Native - plant lives or grows here naturally• Exotic or non-native - plant that is not from here,
thus does not have its natural predators• Invasive – Exotic plant that can reproduce and
spreads into natural areas and bring economic, environmental or health problems
• Weed – any plant that people do not want to be where it is at a certain time
• Noxious weed – against the law to sell or propagate
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Purple Loosestrife
Fireweed
Purple Loosestrife
Lythrum salicaria
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Contamination – Ask questions
• Greenhouse or nursery• Soil • Gravel• Hay/Forage• Manure • Compost
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Creeping Thistle
Cirsium arvense
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Bird Vetch, Vicia Cracca
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Volunteer Opportunities
Seward IPM 1. Exit Glacier Rd annual weed pull2. Middle school3. Mount Marathon race trail4. Resurrection River Islet5. Railroad terminal6. Caines Head State Park – Tonsina, North Beach7. 4th of July beach
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Volunteer Opportunities
Seward Restoration
1. Sheffler Creek2. Schoolyard habitat program – RBCA3. 4th July beach4. Tonsina trail – switch backs
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Alaska resources
• Kenai CWMA – kenaiweeds.org• Alaska Committee for Noxious and Invasive
Plant Management - uaf.edu/ces/pests/cnipm/• Alaska Division of Agriculture –
plants.alaska.gov/• Alaska Native Heritage Program –
aknhp.uss.alaska.edu/botany/akepic• Alaska Association of Conservation Districts –
alaskaconservationdistricts.org
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Contact informationJen Kain – [email protected]
(907)224-5244Resurrection Bay Conservation
Alliance – [email protected] (907)224-4621
Kenai Soil and Water Conservation District – [email protected]
(907)283-8732 ext 108