Webinar: Wednesday, Sept. 2, 9-10 a.m.

New Game, New Game Plan: Building Teams to Tackle Watch List Invasive Plants

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Anyone who has worked to manage invasive plants like garlic mustard or autumn olive knows it’s about playing the long game. When new invasive plants, like those on Michigan’s Watch List, arrive in our state, they don’t come with a playbook. Determining how to effectively contain and control, or even where to look for, emerging populations of watch list plants requires teamwork.

Join Katie Grzesiak and Drew Rayner of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources for “New Game, New Game Plan: Building Teams to Tackle Watch List Invasive Plants” (9 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 2). They will share how Michigan’s Invasive Species Program is using federal grant funds to develop response plans and support local management of mile-a-minute weed, stiltgrass, lesser celandine and other invasive plants.

Join us again on Wednesday, Oct. 21 at 9 a.m. for “How’d That Get There? The Invasive Species Regulation Process in Michigan.”“How’d That Get There? The Invasive Species Regulation Process in Michigan.” Join Susie Iott of the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and Katie Grzesiak of the DNR to learn how and why species become regulated, the risk assessment used to evaluate invasive plants and how you can be involved in the process.