Resources

What You Can Do:

• The Nature Conservancy of Vermont Wise on Weeds!: The Conservancy hosts workshops around the state. Fact sheets, powerpoint presentations, and brochures, are also available for use.
• Center for invasive Species and Ecosystem Health: This website includes any invasive plant, insect, or disease, including how to identify it, how it threatens our natural world and working lands, and how to manage it.
  
• The Vermont Department of Agriculture: Explains the Vermont plant quarantine rule and provides its entire text.
• New England Wild Flower Society: A list of books and articles about invasive plants, their identification, distribution, and control methods. Also includes pictures and questions/answers about a few specific invasive plants.

• Vermont Department of Environment Conservation: The Aquatic Nuisance Species section of the Water Quality Division web site presents information regarding aquatic nuisance species. The Vermont DEC manages the Vermont Aquatic Nuisance Control Program.

• The Trustees of Reservations in Massachusetts has recently published  “Invasive Plants:  Guidelines for Land Managers” It includes excellent sections on how to prioritize sites and species of focu, and a list of resources to consult for management of individual species. Other topics include impacts of invasive plants, importance of management, prevention, early detection and rapid response, control and management, education and public awareness.

Landowner Incentive/Assistance Programs

The following USDA Natural Resoure Conservation Service programs offer assistance in removing invasive plant.

• Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program
• Vermont Technical Assistance Program

Volunteer

• The Nature Conservancy of Vermont: hosts volunteer work days on its preserves and on Wise on Weeds! demonstration sites.
• Vermont Invasive Patrollers: Vermont Invasive Patrollers (VIPs) monitor a local waterbody for new introductions of invasive species while also learning about native aquatic plants and animals and their habitats. 
• Invasive Plant Atlas of New England: The Invasive Plant Atlas of New England’s (IPANE) mission is to create a comprehensive web-accessible database of invasive and potentially invasive plants in New England that will be continually updated by a network of professionals and trained volunteers. The database will facilitate education and research that will lead to a greater understanding of invasive plant ecology and support informed conservation management. An important focus of the project is the early detection of, and rapid response to, new invasions.

Herbicide Information

• Pesticide Education and Safety Information
• VT Department of Agriculture Herbicide Certification Information

Gardening:

• Be Plant Wise:This website, hosted by the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, is an amazing resource chockfull of alternatives to invasive plants.
• New England Wildflower Society: Books, workshops, and web-based resources to help you plan and implement native plant gardens. They have beautiful display gardens, a nursery and retail shop at two locations.
• Source of Native Plant Materials in Vermont: This free publication lists the majority of nurseries seling native plants.
• Wise On Weeds! Gardener Brochure
• Master Gardeners of Vermont
• Vermont Wetland Plant Supply:
• This business offers plants, workshops, and technical assistance to help you restore riparian buffers, wetlands, and ponds.
  

Pests and Pathogens:

• Vermont Forest Pests
• Don't Move Firewood!
• University of Vermont Plant Diagnostic Clinic

Regulations & Permits:

Vermont

• Aquatic Nuisance Control Permits
  
• Noxious Weed Quarantine Rule
  
• Wetland Regulation – Conditional Use Determination
  
• Wetland Rules
  
• Pesticide Application & Certification Information

Other States

• Connecticut Invasive Plant Work Group
  
• Invasive Plant Council of New York State
  
• Massachusetts Invasive Plant Working Group

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