Alabama Invasive Plant Council5th Annual Conference - April 26, 2007
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8:00- 8:45 | Registration: View Displays – Pick up Handouts |
8:45- 9:00 | Welcome - Howard Peavey, President ALIPC |
9:00- 9:40 | Discovering Alabama’s “Alien Invaders” Video sponsored by ALIPC and others |
9:40- 9:55 | Effects of Disturbance & Dispersal Corridors on Chinese Privet Invasion of Bay Swamps S. M. Pokswinski, Auburn University Graduate Student |
9:55 -10:15 | Break and View Vendor Displays |
10:15-10:30 | Influence of Privet on Riparian Corridor NPP & Regeneration Eve Brantley, Auburn University Graduate Student |
10:30-11:00 | North Alabama Initiatives & On the Ground Activities Andy Prewett, Land Manager, Huntsville and North Alabama Land Trust |
11:45-1:00 | Lunch provided on-site |
1:00-1:30 | Funding Programs for Invasive Plant Control Jim Beam, BASF |
1:30-2:00 | Advances in an Alabama Strategy to Target Priority Invasives using New Web Databases Dr. Jim Miller, USFS |
2:00-2:15 | Tropical Soda Apple and other Invasive Plant State Programs Travis Taylor, Alabama Department of Agriculture & Industries |
2:15–2:30 | Survey Report on Invasives in Mobile and Baldwin Counties Suzanne Sweetser, University of South Alabama Graduate Student |
2:30-2:45 | Restoration of Native Plants via Herbicidal Control of Alligatorweed Shannon Allen |
2:45-3:15 | Break and view vendor displays |
3:15-3:30 | Little Bear Creek Habitat Restoration Joe Jernigan, Alabama DCNR, Fisheries Division |
3:30-4:00 | One Company’s Story: Scotch Lumber Company George Robertson-Scotch Lumber |
4:00-4:15 | New Invasive Species Specialists in Alabama Cooperative Extension System Dr. Nancy Loewenstein, Auburn University Dr. David Teem, Auburn University |
4:15-4:30 | Closing Remarks and Door Prizes Michelle Isenberg, President-Elect, ALIPC |
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