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Protecting, enhancing, and promoting northwest Michigan's natural communities through terrestrial invasive plant management and outreach.

Katie Grzesiak, Invasive Species Network Coordinator

HabitatMatters.org

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• wnship
• City of Traverse City
• Rotary Camps and Services
• Grand Traverse County
• The Nature Conservancy
• National Park Service
• Grand Traverse Hiking Club
• Grand Traverse Audubon Club
• Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians

Major Partners:

Funding provided by:

Habitat Matters

For People For Wildlife For Northwest Michigan

Courtesy of Michigan Department of Natural Resources

Michigan Land Cover circa 2006

US Averages:

• 40% agriculture
• 55% urban, suburban, and
• ther “disturbed” landscapes
• 3-5% undisturbed

Sources: U.S. Department of Agriculture Doug Tallamy, Bringing Nature Home.

Habitat Matters

Mike Davis Mike Davis

Milkweeds

Angie Lucas

Tim Lindenbaum

Karen Oberhauser

Monarchs in Trouble

Elms support 213 species of moths and butterflies.

Nature’s Vast, Unseen World

Bird Food

Double-toothed prominent (Nerice bidentata) on an elm leaf.

Basswood (Tilia americana) supports over 150 species of caterpillars checkered-fringe prominent

Schizura ipomoeae

Nature’s Vast, Unseen World

Bird Food

Pandorus Sphinx Moth, Eumorpha pandorus, on a virginia creeper at Kids Creek Park.

Nature’s Vast, Unseen World

Carol Groves

Nature’s Vast, Unseen World

Northern spicebush swallowtail

(Papilio troilus).

Hosts: spicebush (Lindera benzoin), sassafras (Sassafras albidum).

Lisa Brown

Nature’s Vast, Unseen World

Nature’s Vast, Unseen World

Source: Tallamy, Doug. Bringing Nature Home. Timber Press, 2007.

Woody Plants Ranked by Ability to Support Butterfly/Moth Species Common Name Genus Species Supported

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Quercus 534 willow Salix 456 cherry, plum Prunus 456 birch Betula 413 elm Ulmus 213 pine Pinus 203 chestnut Castanea 125

Habitat is Beautiful

Carolyn Thayer, Designs in Bloom Jim Bruek

Landscapes

Habitat is Beautiful

Jim Bruek

Landscapes

Habitat is Beautiful

Landscapes

John Beetham John Beetham Dan Mullen

Habitat is Beautiful

Blooms

Mark Brand Jordi Chueca

Habitat is Beautiful

Forms

Joshua Mayer T

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Phillip Merritt

Habitat is Beautiful

Greenery

Habitat is Beautiful

Superior National Forest Kurt Wagner

Wildlife Use

Nature’s Vast, Unseen World

Source: Tallamy, Doug. Bringing Nature Home. Timber Press, 2007.

Woody Plants Ranked by Ability to Support Butterfly/Moth Species Common Name Genus Species Supported

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Quercus 534 willow Salix 456 cherry, plum Prunus 456 birch Betula 413 elm Ulmus 213 pine Pinus 203 chestnut Castanea 125

How Long Until “Non-Native” Becomes “Native?”

Invasive Phragmites

Hosting Capacity of Alien Plants Introduced to North America

Plant Species Herbivores Supported in Homeland Herbivores Supported in North America Years Since Introduction to North America Black sally 48 species 1 species 100

Melaleuca tree

409 species 8 species 120 Indian fig cactus 16 species 0 species 250

Invasive phragmites 170 species 5 species 300+

Source: Tallamy, Doug. Bringing Nature Home. Timber Press, 2007.

How long does change take?

What’s Invasive?

• Few natural predators

Native monarch caterpillar eating native milkweed leaf

• Massive seed production

Invasive honeysuckle

• Non-native

Jake Hendee

Wolfgang Meinhart Frankenstoen, Bugwood.org

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Archive, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Bugwood.org

Purple loosestrife beetle introduced for biocontrol

Michigan Natural Features Inventory

What’s Invasive?

Jörg Hempel Saffron Blaze Environmental harm – a natural area consisting mostly of one or a combination of introduced plants that provide minimal habitat value.

Formal definition – a non-native species that harms people, the environment, or the economy.

Imported accidentally

Invasive Phragmites

John M. Randall, The Nature Conservancy, Bugwood.org

How Do They Get Here?

Imported for food or medicine

Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy

Garlic mustard

Planted to manage soil erosion

Mark Lindsay

Imported for gardens

Glossy/common buckthorn Autumn olive

Invasive ID Guide

• Developed by ISN Partners in October 2010
• Lists plants with greatest impacts
• Half of the Top 20 plants still sold for landscape use

Top 20 “Least Wanted” Species

Reporting

Report invasive species sightings to http://www.misin.msu.edu/report

Partnerships—Using Invasives

• Autumn Berry Preserves

– Invasive autumn olive fruit

• Product already being made

– ISN labeling – Education vs. Promotion

• Control still #1!
• Garlic Mustard Paper

– Workbee-pulled garlic mustard

• 4,000+ lbs wet for 250 lbs dry
• = 20,000+ sheets = 40,000+ cards

– “Habitat Matters” Holidays 2014

Go Beyond Beauty

Go Beyond Beauty—for wildlife habitat, healthy waters, and bountiful gardens.

A program to remove invasive species from local nurseries’ and landscapers’ inventory.

• Keep ornamental invasives from

spreading due to planting

• Outreach & education about

participants’ efforts to preserve native habitat

“Alternatives” Brochure

Invasive Ornamentals

Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Steven J. Baskauf Mark Brand Mark Lindsay Shaun Howard, TNC Kristian Peters John M. Randall Davesgarden.com Ted Bodner

State-Banned Ornamentals

Olivier Pichard Matthew Bertrand John D. Byrd

Early Detection Invasive Ornamentals

Jerry Kirkhart Gernot Hochmueller University of Connecticut, Horticulture Enchanted Gardens Design Jill Fejszes Wasyl Bakowsky

Protecting, enhancing, and promoting Northwest Michigan's natural communities through terrestrial invasive plant management and outreach.

Questions?

Katie Grzesiak

(231) 941-0960x29 kgrzesiak@gtcd.org HabitatMatters.org