Journal of Plant Ecology【🎉Latest accepted article】
Root-microbe-soil coupling enhances rhizosphere priming and nitrogen acquisition in #InvasivePlants
#RhizospherePrimingEffect | #RootTraits | #NutrientCycling | #MicrobialBiomass | #SoilEnzymeActivity
Sam HarrisonSome good news! #sharegoodnews #Virginia #invasivespecies #invasiveplants #conservation
Virginia lawmakers pass three bills to fight invasive plants.
https://www.29news.com/2026/03/15/virginia-lawmakers-pass-three-bills-fight-invasive-plants/
DoomsdaysCWSo, I did a bit of research into the new herbicide that's safer than #RoundUp (Spruce brand). I actually found easy-to-obtain substitutes for the ingredients, and I'm going to start playing around with recipes, and use the home-made version on some of our really stubborn #InvasivePlants. I'll be posting about research on the ingredients (and why they could work) this #SolarPunkSunday !
#SaferHerbicides #Gardening #NaturalHerbicides #NoRoundup #RoundupAlternatives #NoGlyphosates
Ms. Que BanhI dug out some invasive/unwanted #thistles.
They have strong taproot that become bigger & stronger if left to grow/spread.
#InvasivePlants #spiky #foliage #weeding #textures #plants #botanical #green #Saanich #VancouverIsland #TextureTuesday
Herd for Hire: About 300 #Goats Employed to Help #CheyenneWY Clear Overgrown Vegetation
by Alex Hill, Jun 11, 2025
"For over a decade, the City of Cheyenne has employed goat herds to manage overgrown vegetation. This approach has proven both effective and cost-efficient.
"In 2025, the city awarded the vegetation management contract to Goats on the Go, Boulder, a division of Olson Outdoors based in Broomfield, Colorado.
"Lauren Patrie, owner and partner of Goats on the Go, Boulder, explained, 'So we're up here for 25 days. And basically what we do is we just move the goats around wherever there's a need.'
"The primary objective, like every year, is to clear #invasive species and overgrown vegetation obstructing two of Cheyenne’s floodways. These plants not only impede water flow but also disrupt local #ecosystems.
"Patrie further elaborated, 'The city of Cheyenne brought us out here to bring a big herd of about 300 goats to clean up overgrown vegetation and invasive weeds along the greenway.'
"The goats' grazing habits offer several #environmental benefits. Patrie noted, 'Goats are super agile and light on their feet, so less chance of erosion that you might have with heavy equipment.' Additionally, 'We're not using gas-powered or anything that has chemicals, toxic emissions. They're still and aerate the soil. Makes it easier for nutrients and water to absorb into the soil. Healthier for native grasses to regrow. And their digestive process renders the seeds of #InvasivePlants useless so they can no longer grow in the future.' [I did not know this!]
"Despite this decade-long practice, 2025 marked the first time the city hosted a public event to introduce the goats. The 'Meet and Bleat' event featured a petting zoo-style area, allowing citizens to interact closely with the herd. Both the city and Goats on the Go aimed to spotlight the hardworking goats and foster community engagement."
#SolarPunkSunday #Wyoming #GoatGoals #YardGoats #LawnGoats #GoatsForHire #Goatscaping #MeetAndBleat #InvasiveSpecies #NoHerbicides
#Florida #WildlifeCorridor linking #StateParks would thwart #development
#LoxaLucie Headwaters Initiative aims to buy #HobeSound land for conservation.
by Timothy O'Hara, Jan. 2, 2026
"At a time when development pressure is pushing north into rural Martin County, conservation groups want to protect a wildlife corridor between two state parks in Hobe Sound.
"The Loxa-Lucie Headwaters Initiative was founded to protect the ecologically important corridor between #AtlanticRidgePreserve State Park and #JonathanDickinson State Park and connect the #LoxahatcheeRiver and #SaintLucie rivers. That would create a preserve for #NativePlants and #wildlife species that would span about 70,000 acres.
"The public owns #Hapatiokee and #PalMar regional parks, but there are thousands of acres of privately owned land in natural conditions that are ripe for development, said Guardians of Martin County Executive Director Greg Braun, whose group is part of the initiative.
" 'If they can connect the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia, we should be able to connect Jonathan Dickinson State Park to Atlantic Ridge Preserve State Park,' Braun told TCPalm."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/nARjr
#SolarPunkSunday #WildlifeConservation #Florida #Nature #Wildlife #UrbanSprawl #InvasivePlants #NativeSpecies #ProtectingWildlife
😀🚲Arum season again in Portland 😒 #invasivePlants
Rancho de la LibertadOkay, okay, but creosote is easy to accept. It's a native pioneer, not an invasive one. But what about brome?
It's not that aggressive in our climate. Yes, yes, it seeds during rainy years, and it's everywhere, but what is it outcompeting? The natives that can reseed in rainy years are thriving, usually alongside it, at least until we get a drought again or the off-roaders return. They're sharing nutrients, and it's feeding herbivores that can digest it (sometimes better than the woody, spiny natives that survived and often coexist with it). Why not allow soil coverage? Root systems?
Our soil is hydrophobic. What that means is that when it rains it floods and doesn't fill our aquifers. There is a very clear issue with that: people are pumping water out of the ground from 300-1000 feet deep. In the 1970's someone could come out to where I'm at in the valley and hand dig a well at 10 or so feet-- the evidence is half a mile from me, by the way, I've walked to that homestead.
Can you really fathom how many acre feet of water that is that's been pumped out of the ground and not replaced? No one should be living here. It should be the most egregious social taboo to go to a drilling company and pay upwards of $65k to drill a well that deep. And yet what's coming in? More short term rentals. More resorts. More businesses. More restaurants. More! We shouldn't even be here, and if this wasn't a literally ancestral calling, we wouldn't be.
So why is the grass the enemy? It's *helping* by all accounts. We need roots in the ground, desperately. Like, decades ago. We need more trees. We need to stop building homes that the ecosystem cannot support. So why is the MDLT getting millions of dollars in donations every year telling people to get rid of the grass? "Come on in! We've got plenty of *space*! Come to our plant sale, let us tell you how special we are for nursing some chollas! Okay, great, thanks for your money, enjoy your multi-million dollar second home!"
We *have* to be here. We *need* to solve this problem. But for it to work everyone who lives here needs to be invested in solving it -- not just in ripping out "weeds", but in actually doing the work to repair what's been done to this Valley. We need to literally move mountains.
And that's never going to happen.
And we're well aware that one day all of our work may wither and die because of it, but we have to be here, and we're doing it anyway.
#NativePlants #InvasivePlants #MDLT #MojaveDesert #Ecology #ClimateJustice #ClimateChange
I wish I currently had more time on my hands to publicly deconstruct all of the absolute bullshit behind the rampant misinformation orgs like the Mojave Desert Land Trust spread regarding the local ecology of this region. I'm not saying their work isn't *good* in some ways, but the insistence that this is "scrubland" and what we need is bare soil to prevent fires instead of a total regeneration of the hydrological cycle (and yes, pioneer plants are a critical part of this! Even invasives! If you can't replace them you cannot just "rip them out" and call it good!) is outright harmful.
Did you know the mountains South of our land used to be about 10 miles closer than they currently are to the highway? As of 1938. What moves mountains? Mining! You're telling me they razed half a mountain range (and that's only in one mining district) in two decades and the flora and fauna that have repopulated the now completely flat valley in the last 75 years since the mines shut down are representative of *exactly* how the ecosystem should be? Give me a break.
#ClimateJustice #SettlerViolence #MojaveDesert #InvasivePlants #LandRegeneration
I've alerted Saanich Parks with GPS coordinates on some #invasive #EnglishLaurel #plants in #ColquitzPark. This one was pretty large & is starting to bud out.
More info on #InvasivePlantsInBC 👇
https://bcinvasives.ca/
#InvasivePlants #Saanich #VictoriaBC #botanical #PlantID #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #InvasiveShrubs #educational
