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Nisqually Knotweed Control Project
Renee Mitchell Pierce Conservation District
5430 66th Avenue East Puyallup, WA 98371
(253) 845-9770 [email protected]
Presented to the Nisqually River Council
by:
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Project Partners
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2012 Project Update
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Funding for 2012 consisted of:
Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office Salmon Recovery Funding Board (SRFB)
WSDA Knotweed Program Department of Natural Resources – Job
Creation Bill Grant USFWS Grant - Private Landowner Grant
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2012
PCD continued knotweed awareness to the public via outreach letters, brochures, face-to-face meetings, emails, and phone calls
Presented a Knotweed Educational Workshop to the town of Eatonville
Presented knotweed education awareness to: Nisqually River Council, Roy Salmon Homecoming, Pierce County SWM WCC crew & Noxious Weed Control staff, UW Center For Sustainable Forestry - Pack Forest, Nisqually Stream Stewards, and the Salmon Recovery Funding Board (SRFB)
Held a knotweed bending event with the U.S. Forest Service sponsored Discovery Teams – bent 5 acres of knotweed above Big Creek
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2012 Summer Field Crews
3 field crews allocated to the Upper Nisqually Watershed
= *18 workers on the ground + Program Manager
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Upper & Lower Watershed:
Goat Creek, Big Creek, Reese Creek, Roundtop Creek, East Creek, Mashel River, Lynch Creek, Ohop Lake, Ohop Creek, Medicine Creek, McAllister Creek, Red Salmon Creek, and several Unnamed Tributaries
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30.25 total miles of river & creeks surveyed within the watershed 54 private & public-owned parcels surveyed and treated 7.7 new miles of initial treatment in the upper watershed 338 acres of knotweed infestations treated
* Treatment estimated at a 90% mortality rate
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Nisqually Watershed Control as of 2012
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Past Knotweed Treatment
2010 2012
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Continued…..
2012 2013
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Problems encountered
Poor property access within Upper Watershed – Lewis
County side of river
Difficult terrain
Extreme heat in the late summer
Patchy satellite coverage for surveying in remote areas
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2013 Knotweed Control Season
23 Pierce Conservation District and DNR workers dedicated to the Nisqually Watershed
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2013 Treatment Goal
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Partnerships at Work………
Tacoma Power - Alder Lake Survey & Control
Department of Natural Resources – Upper Watershed Control
USFW – Wildlife Refuge & Lower Watershed Control
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Mineral Creek - 0.5 Mile Knotweed Infestation
Upper Nisqually Watershed
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New Concerns
Knotweed located in tidal influenced zone within the Nisqually Wildlife Refuge
Knotweed found at Alder Lake Dam
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Questions??