The North Carolina Sandhills Weed Management Area

Invasive Plant Control in the North Carolina Sandhills

NCSWMA Projects 2009 FIELD WORK The NCSWMA was busy in 2009!  We surveyed 32 properties totaling 14,708 acres for invasive plants.  We mapped over 1,600 occurrences of 34 different invasive plants on these properties and treated over 350 occurrences! 2009 BREAKDOWN   52% of occurrences mapped were Chinese Privet and Japanese honeysuckle.   20% of occurrences mapped were “wildlife-related” (planted for food or cover): Chinese Lespedeza (Lespedeza cuneata) = 6.6% Shrubby Lespedeza (Lespedeza bicolor) = 4.7% Multiflora Rose (Rosa multiflora) = 4.7% Weeping Lovegrass (Eragrostis curvula) = 4.3%   Remaining 28% of occurrences mapped were considered Early Detection and Rapid Response (EDRR) species, the most common of which were: Chinaberry (Melia azedarach) = 7.6% Chinese Wisteria (Wisteria sinensis) = 3.7% Mimosa (Albizia julibrissin) = 3.3% Boyd's Tract - Weymouth Woods State Nature Preserve The Kinlaw-Snipes Tract - Sandhills Area Land Trust   Long Valley Farm - The Nature Conservancy Bowling-Crowley Tract - The Nature Conservancy NCSWMA Meeting Presentations Presentation for the NC Native Plant Symposium: Bad Neighbors - How Invasive Plants Threaten Natives Presentation for the Southeastern Exotic Pest Plant Council (SE-EPPC) Invasives Workshop: Cooperative Weed Management Areas - Doing More With Less Poster for the North Carolina Prescribed Fire Council Annual Meeting: Fire Effects on Invasive Plant Species North Carolina Sandhills Weed Management Area