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COURSE TITLE: Wanted - Invasive Plants - Dead or Alive

INSTRUCTORS Karina Dailey
Zapata Courage

COURSE DESCRIPTION Wanted - Invasive Plants - Dead or Alive
Presented by Karina Dailey and Zapata Courage
March 19, 2020

ABSTRACT:
Invasive plants can take over to a point of no return within a disturbed or degraded wetland and create challenges for restoration or reclamation of wetlands. Monitoring for invasive species can result in early detection of new species, tracking the spread of existing invasive plants, and helping to identify appropriate treatment options, or whether it makes sense not to actively manage. Monitoring for invasive species can help restoration projects be successful by giving native species the opportunity to establish, improving biodiversity, and overall wetland functions and values. Our presentation will explore four (4) Vermont Case Studies of Wetland Restoration, Enhancement, and Invasive Species Management.

KARINA DAILEY BIO:
Karina has over 20 years of experience in environmental consulting, ecological restoration, wetland assessment, wetland delineation and stream delineation throughout Vermont and the Inter-Mountain West. She currently oversees the environmental department at TCE and is responsible for managing, design, and implementation of all-natural resource related projects. Her expertise includes wetlands and water resource policy, forest corridor and wildlife habitat planning, and expert testimony relevant to Vermont’s Act 250 and Act 248 Land Use Permitting.
Prior to joining TCE, Karina worked with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service managing riparian restoration projects for the Conservation Reserve Habitat Enhancement Program (CREP). The riparian restoration work became the subject of her Master’s Thesis titled: Developing and implementing long-term monitoring protocols for restoration efforts along riparian corridors in Northern New England.
Beyond her work field assignments, Karina’s spare time always includes exploring the natural world - on foot, on skis, by boat, or on horseback with her family and friends.

ZAPATA COURAGE BIO:
Zapata Courage has twenty cumulative years of field and laboratory experience with consulting firms, federal and state agencies, universities & non-profit groups. Since 2014, she has served as a District Wetland Ecologist with the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation’s Wetlands Program. This position protects Vermont’s wetlands through regulation, education, restoration, and enforcement. Previous to this position, Zapata worked with the VT Fish and Wildlife Program in two capacities: bat biologist and as an environmental educator. She has worked in the private consulting sector conducting natural resources and species surveys for three different firms. Zapata also has many fond memories of the various field technician positions she accepted over the years, including mid-sized carnivore monitoring in the Sierra Mountains of California, gray wolf and white-tailed deer trapping and tracking in the Boundary Waters of Minnesota, tick collecting for parasite biological control presence in Kenya, raising and re- introducing the White Bearded Vulture to Kenya’s Hells Gate National Park and mist netting bats in Puerto Rico. Zapata earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Conservation Biology from the University of Vermont’s Rubenstein School of Natural Science.

Credit Points:

SYLLABUS/TOPICAL OUTLINE (1) Intro: (15 min) Challenges associated with invasive plants in wetlands; (2) The value of monitoring for invasive plant species (15 min.); (3) Vermont Case Studies of Wetland Restoration, Enhancement, and Invasive Species Management (20 min.); (4) Questions (10 min.).

COURSE CONTACT

Louis Mantini
Suwannee River WMD, 9225 CR49, Live Oak, FL 32060
lfm@srwmd.org
P: 386.647.3144
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