Your help needed to collect data about an invasive grass! (Ventenata dubia)
Have you seen wiregrass?
Pamela Scheinost (a Conservation Agronomist at the USDA-NRCS Plant Materials Center) is evaluating Ventenata dubia (wiregrass, hairgrass) invasiveness and sent out this questionnaire to land managers: ventenata-field-data-questionnaire.doc)
Ventenata has been flagged as an ALERT species in the Pacific Northwest by The Nature Conservancy Global Invasive Species Team (see their alert at: http://tncweeds.ucdavis.edu/alert/alrtvent.html).
This may be an important species to flag for early detection and control in Oregon. If you would like to help get a handle on the potential threat of Ventenata in Oregon, please fill out and return the questionnaire (ventenata-field-data-questionnaire.doc) to: pamela.scheinost@wa.usda.gov.
Sincerely,
Tania Siemens
EDRR Project Coordinator
The Nature Conservancy in Oregon