Be a responsible gardener It is your choice what to plant, choose wisely.

Be a responsible gardener

It is your choice what

to plant,

choose wisely

Definitions

• Native - plant lives or grows here naturally• Exotic or non-native - plant that is not from here,

thus does not have its natural predators• Invasive – Exotic plant that can reproduce and

spreads into natural areas and bring economic, environmental or health problems

• Weed – any plant that people do not want to be where it is at a certain time

• Noxious weed – against the law to sell or propagate

Purple Loosestrife

Fireweed

Purple Loosestrife

Lythrum salicaria

Contamination – Ask questions

• Greenhouse or nursery• Soil • Gravel• Hay/Forage• Manure • Compost

Creeping Thistle

Cirsium arvense

Bird Vetch, Vicia Cracca

Volunteer Opportunities

Seward IPM 1. Exit Glacier Rd annual weed pull2. Middle school3. Mount Marathon race trail4. Resurrection River Islet5. Railroad terminal6. Caines Head State Park – Tonsina, North Beach7. 4th of July beach

Volunteer Opportunities

Seward Restoration

1. Sheffler Creek2. Schoolyard habitat program – RBCA3. 4th July beach4. Tonsina trail – switch backs

Alaska resources

• Kenai CWMA – kenaiweeds.org• Alaska Committee for Noxious and Invasive

Plant Management - uaf.edu/ces/pests/cnipm/• Alaska Division of Agriculture –

plants.alaska.gov/• Alaska Native Heritage Program –

aknhp.uss.alaska.edu/botany/akepic• Alaska Association of Conservation Districts –

alaskaconservationdistricts.org

Contact informationJen Kain – [email protected]

(907)224-5244Resurrection Bay Conservation

Alliance – [email protected] (907)224-4621

Kenai Soil and Water Conservation District – [email protected]

(907)283-8732 ext 108