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Updated July 11 -------------------------------------------------------- Plant Conservation Alliance general meeting announcement Wednesday, July 8, 2009 9:30 - 11:30 AM LOCATION: Conference Room at NatureServe 1101 Wilson Boulevard, 15th Floor Arlington, VA 22209 The Plant Conservation Alliance (PCA) Bi-Monthly Meeting is an open forum for anyone interested or working in plant conservation. The meeting is held every other month in the Washington DC metropolitan area. There is roundtable for attendees to share relevant events, as well as updates from each of the PCA working groups and committees, including the Alien Plant Working Group. Regular attendees include representatives from the PCA Federal agencies and from cooperating organizations; however anyone is welcome to attend this meeting. Past meeting summaries and selected presentations are available at http://www.nps.gov/plants/meetings/bimonthly/index.htm . ----------------------------------------------------------- Suffolk Count...

Updated 3/13/09 Hemlock woolly adelgid workshop in the Finger Lakes region An insect pest newly arrived in the Finger Lakes region, NY -- the hemlock woolly adelgid – was recently discovered in the Cornell Plantations area of Cascadilla Gorge and in the Beebe Lake natural areas and is threatening hemlock trees and the biodiversity they support. This Asian species has decimated hemlock populations across the eastern United States, where altered habitats – due to the loss of the hemlocks – have caused a cascade of environmental changes for some amphibians, fish, invertebrates and plants in response to increased light and warmer temperatures. The hemlock woolly adelgid ( Adelges tsugae ) causes nearly 100 percent mortality in the native eastern hemlock ( Tsuga cana densis). The small, aphid-like insects feed on the sap at the base of individual needles on the trees; eventually needles yellow and drop, branches die, and trees succumb in about four to 10 years. Hemlock woolly adelgids were ...

Updated 2/24 TNC's Global Invasive Species Team closing shop due to budget cuts From: Barry Rice, TNC [Reprinted from the GIST listserv] As a result of budget cutbacks announced last week, The Nature Conservancy's Global Invasive Species Team (GIST) is being disbanded and will close down much of its work over the next few weeks and months. Ramifications of this closure are the following: A)The GIST ilistserve will be closing in early March. B)The GIST web site ( http://tncinvasives.org/ ) will no longer be supported as of March 6: after that date it will merely coast without updates. It may disappear entirely after August. C)We hope that portions of the site can be relocated to other web sites--see messages 3-5 below if you can support the content. D)Our new wiki ( http://invasipedia.org/ ) will no longer be monitored or supported, and so will be removed unless another organization offers to house and manage it (see message 5, below). If you are interested in supporting some of...