Brochure on Aquatics
Previous Weed Pull Events
This summer the Yukon Invasive Species Council organized a series of weed-pulls at these locations:
On June 12th volunteers helped Bruce Bennett (of the Yukon Invasive Species Council) pull White Sweetclover behind the Yukon College and along the road to the beaver pond.
On August 3rd a group of volunteers met to pull invasives along the Annie Lake Road.
On August 11 a few residents of the Mary Lake subdivison were activ in their neighbourhood.
“Sweetclover likes to invade disturbed sites and gravel bars. When it expands its range onto the pristine gravel bars along a river, it becomes a problem for shorebirds like the Spotted Sandpiper which nest on the gravel”, Bennett explains.
This is one of the impacts invaders poses to our environment. Some of the clover plants pulled by the volunteers had already reached a height of 2 feet.
“It is really satisfying to get these fat ones”, expressed Maciej Stetkiewicz, participating in the first weed-pull.
This time of the year the clover is not in seed yet and can be left on the ground to rot after pulling.
Giant Hogweed:
big, scary Alien on the move
May 14, 2010 - With the approach of International Day for Biological Diversity on May 22nd, the time is right to start focusing on the early detection of invasive alien species—the second biggest threat to biodiversity worldwide. In a press release The National Invasive Species Working Group promotes early detection of invasive species. Giant Hogweed is not jet reported in the Yukon and might be confused with cow-parsnip which as an example grows along the South Klondike Highway in the region of Tutshi Lake. Read the article and learn how to recognize giant hogweed.
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Yukon Invasive Species Council welcomes newly elected
Board of Directors
April 23, 2010 – At the first AGM the YISC membership appoints The Board of Directors. Toos Omtzigt is elected as president. Read more...
Environment Fair was a success
The Environment Fair on April 17, 2010 was a great success. Table and display about invasive plants and the Yukon Invasive Species Council were visited well. Thank you to our volunteers Lloyd Freese, Randy Lewis, Matt Ball, Jim Dillabough, Heather Clarke and Andrea Altherr who helped during preparation and at the fair. A special thanks to Bruce Bennett and Carrie McClelland who contributed to our display and provided great support during the fair.
More than 500 visitors came to the fair. Some of them stopped at our table and expressed their concern about sweetclover they see growing along the highway and their driveways.
Matt Ball’s talk on “Plants that don’t belong” was well received. He used the example of leafy spurge to tell the story of how invasive plants come to the Yukon, why early detection is important and explained ways of eradication.
Matt Ball and Andrea Altherr at the YISC booth
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