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Beaver Island reports progress in the fight against Phragmites

Also Beaver Island Phragmites control success 2012

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TypeEvent
Date2012-08
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ErasModern era
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Summary

The August 2012 Beaver Beacon reports progress against Phragmites on Beaver Island. September forum notices from the township administrator document the planned Cardno/JFNew treatment window and later announce that treatment had been completed, while asking owners to remove seed heads from treated plants.

Evidence limits

The sources document a reported treatment program and a first-party completion notice, not an independent measure of treatment success, treated acreage, or long-term control.

Sources

  1. Lisa Welke, identified in the newspaper record as the township Phragmites administrator, announced that treatment had been completed and asked property owners to remove seed heads from treated plants. This is a first-party operational completion notice; it does not establish treatment success across every site or acreage.
    forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 05 · t005511
  2. Lisa Welke announced the scheduled Cardno/JFNew treatment window and herbicide precautions. This supplies the operational schedule preceding the later completion notice, not an independent treatment audit.
    forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 05 · t005450
  3. Beaver Beacon, August 2012, "Beaver Island Winning the War on Phragmites."
    Reports progress in controlling invasive Phragmites through island coordination and treatment work. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2012-08_Beaver-Beacon
  4. The held August issue scan confirms this source thread.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2012-08_Beaver-Beacon

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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island reports progress in the fight against Phragmites”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-phragmites-control-success-2012/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Forum, “Phragmites Treatment”, September 20, 2012. (and 3 further sources listed on the page).

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