Vilas County Invasive Species Program

Cooperative Efforts and Practices of the

Invasive Species Coordinator and Mapping Department

Partnerships Departments

Resource Conservation and Development (RC&D)

Regional Groups

Equipment Pen/Paper

Handheld GPS

ArcPad

ArcGIS

Personal Mobile Devices?

Find a usable coordinate format

Create a feature class from the XY table

Play connect-the-dots using point attributes

Objective: To quantify the extent of garlic mustard growing in the heart of town and identify on whose lands it was growing.

Field mapping equipment: Handheld basic GPS receiver

Paper & pen to record starting and ending waypoint for each polygon

Method: Collected polygon points around each patch

Requested map showing patch sizes and parcel lines

Objective: To determine total miles of SK along county roadway ROW and evaluate potential for bio-control implementation

Field mapping equipment: Handheld basic GPS receiver

Paper & pen to record stop and start waypoint numbers for each

Method:

Collected via “windshield” survey

Requested map highlighting ROW infestations

Objective: Evaluate selected private forest lands for presence of

invasive plants

To increase invasives awareness by landowners

Project partners: Local RC&D provided funding

Vilas County provided employment services for field technician

Conserve School provided housing for technician

WHIP (weed co-op) provided Trimble unit

Mapping Dept. programmed Trimble

Objective: Survey all county roads ROW for presence of invasive plants in advance of developing ROW invasive species management plans for Highway Commissioners

Project partners: Local RC&D provided funding and employment services

to hire two LTEs

WHIP providing use of two Trimble units and oversight of LTEs

Mapping Depts. programmed Trimble units

Species [name list], Notes [text]

Count [<10, 10-50, >50], Area [<50, 50-500, >500]

WHIP Roadside Invasives Survey

AREA CollectionSpecies

Notes

WHIP Roadside Invasives Survey

LINE CollectionSpecies

NotesWHIP Roadside Invasives Survey

POINT CollectionSpecies

Approx Woody Species Plant Count

Approx Non-Woody Species Area (ft2)

Notes

Objective: Survey 70 shoreline miles of Eagle river chained lakes for presence of PL plants to evaluate need for bio-control project

Project partners: Chain of Lakes Association volunteers

Vilas Mapping Dept.

Method: Volunteer spotters collected GPS coordinates and plant

counts during 2011 PL bloom season

Mapping Dept produced map

Bio-control program now underway

Department visibility

Consistent collection procedures

One-stop data storage Local data sharing

Regional data sharing

Enhanced products

Public Awareness/Engagement