Fire as a Control Method for Invasive Plants

As our climate changes, plants and animals shift their distributions by colonizing and establishing new territory to find suitable microclimates that allow them to persist and producing offspring to continue the process. The problem is that this process takes time, often generations; and the process is complicated by landscape fragmentation such as roads, dams, development, and the impacts invasive species have on habitats …

… Click on the link above for an article by MRG Director of Land Management Budd Veverka published in the St. Lawrence Eastern Lake Ontario Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management (SLELO-PRISM). Mianus River Gorge is a member of the Lower Hudson PRISM. Budd also gave a presentation about this method of controlling invasive plants on Long Island.