Invasive Plant Inventory and Bird Cherry Control Trials Alaska Form

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[Applause] standing here in a little thicket of European bird cherry which is the official common name prunus POTUS is the Latin name here in Anchorage a lot of people call it the made a tree it was it was introduced as ornamental tree and planted heavily in the 80 by our city's Parks Department what we've since discovered is that it produces these sour black cherries that are spread by birds some of the birds of course poop those out and spread it to new areas where it's aggressively kind of colonizing and takes over normally like in this area behind us we see roses I wish cranberry to work dogwood things like that it was very successful in me we've got your deciduous shade of environment and it seems to crowd out all those other things and creates a whole new layer of shade essentially you know in that mid story that kind of seems to be conducive to itself long terms to those concerns for food forage availability for moose you know this was crowds out the species they can eat like wi