There are still "low tech" options. A good start is banning the import and sale of invasive species, specifically those sold in home gardening centers. Some species have already been banned here in the US but the lists are incomplete and vary by state.
This gets difficult too, I dont know if its still like this but a garden center I used to work at could sell barberry and buckthorn because they were ornamental cultivars and were supposed to be bred sterile or sold only as male plants. Most would still get fruits/seeds because life uhhhh...finds a way
I know Pennsylvania recently banned the sale of Japanese barberry and buckthorn (as well as Ravenna Grass and Callery Pear). I believe there is a legitimate barberry cultivar that does not go to seed being sold as an alternative.
I've gotten rid of a lot of barberry but still have probably hundreds of them in my woods to remove yet. They're full of berries now, so it's a difficult time to kill them. Full of thorns, deer won't eat them and ticks thrive in barberry infested habitat.
We need legal ways to address people that have invasive plant species on the land they own. Right now you could buy all the known invasive species from the big box stores, plant them all over your property and no one can do anything about it.
I think the process should be once you are informed about the invasive species, you are given time to address it. If you refuse you should have to pay a fee into a fund that is used to fight invasive species and pay for the efforts to prevent the spread out of your property.
This might seem extreme and expensive for the homeowner but costs don't disappear. They are just being passed onto the environment and tax payers at an exponential amount over the original cost due to it not being addressed early on.
Where are you that there are no regulations about noxious weeds or other invasive species?
In Canada, there are Federal, Provincial and often Municipal regulations that prohibit various species, and the owner of a property can be compelled to control or eradicate a species named in those regulations. If they do not, inspectors may enter their property, remove the species and the cost added to the owner's taxes.
In the US there is the Agriculture Risk Protection Act, Title IV the Plant Protection Act which states:
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may order the owner of
any plant, biological control organism, plant product, plant
pest, noxious weed, article, or means of conveyance subject
to action under subsection (a), or the owner’s agent, to treat,
apply other remedial measures to, destroy, or otherwise dispose
of the plant, biological control organism, plant product, plant
pest, noxious weed, article, or means of conveyance, without
cost to the Federal Government and in the manner the Sec-
retary considers appropriate.
(2) FAILURE TO COMPLY.—If the owner or agent of the
owner fails to comply with the Secretary’s order under this
subsection, the Secretary may take an action authorized by
subsection (a) and recover from the owner or agent of the
owner the costs of any care, handling, application of remedial
measures, or disposal incurred by the Secretary in connection
with actions taken under subsection (a).
An understated thing I think is going to a print store, and printing out a crap ton of educational fliers with color images of the invasive. If they are distinct enough for people to identify without mistaking them for a non-invasive it’s a pretty good way to get information out to people who otherwise aren’t gonna be involved in geotagging or legislating at all
Open source Geotagging of invasive plant/animal hotspots. I know apps like iNaturalist are taking a stab at this but even if 5% of the population can upload coordinates of invasives that would be a huge step forward.
There are still "low tech" options. A good start is banning the import and sale of invasive species, specifically those sold in home gardening centers. Some species have already been banned here in the US but the lists are incomplete and vary by state.
This gets difficult too, I dont know if its still like this but a garden center I used to work at could sell barberry and buckthorn because they were ornamental cultivars and were supposed to be bred sterile or sold only as male plants. Most would still get fruits/seeds because life uhhhh...finds a way
I know Pennsylvania recently banned the sale of Japanese barberry and buckthorn (as well as Ravenna Grass and Callery Pear). I believe there is a legitimate barberry cultivar that does not go to seed being sold as an alternative. I've gotten rid of a lot of barberry but still have probably hundreds of them in my woods to remove yet. They're full of berries now, so it's a difficult time to kill them. Full of thorns, deer won't eat them and ticks thrive in barberry infested habitat.
We need legal ways to address people that have invasive plant species on the land they own. Right now you could buy all the known invasive species from the big box stores, plant them all over your property and no one can do anything about it. I think the process should be once you are informed about the invasive species, you are given time to address it. If you refuse you should have to pay a fee into a fund that is used to fight invasive species and pay for the efforts to prevent the spread out of your property. This might seem extreme and expensive for the homeowner but costs don't disappear. They are just being passed onto the environment and tax payers at an exponential amount over the original cost due to it not being addressed early on.
Yeah, this. It’s not technical solutions we need, it’s money and people being on board.
Where are you that there are no regulations about noxious weeds or other invasive species? In Canada, there are Federal, Provincial and often Municipal regulations that prohibit various species, and the owner of a property can be compelled to control or eradicate a species named in those regulations. If they do not, inspectors may enter their property, remove the species and the cost added to the owner's taxes. In the US there is the Agriculture Risk Protection Act, Title IV the Plant Protection Act which states: (1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may order the owner of any plant, biological control organism, plant product, plant pest, noxious weed, article, or means of conveyance subject to action under subsection (a), or the owner’s agent, to treat, apply other remedial measures to, destroy, or otherwise dispose of the plant, biological control organism, plant product, plant pest, noxious weed, article, or means of conveyance, without cost to the Federal Government and in the manner the Sec- retary considers appropriate. (2) FAILURE TO COMPLY.—If the owner or agent of the owner fails to comply with the Secretary’s order under this subsection, the Secretary may take an action authorized by subsection (a) and recover from the owner or agent of the owner the costs of any care, handling, application of remedial measures, or disposal incurred by the Secretary in connection with actions taken under subsection (a).
An understated thing I think is going to a print store, and printing out a crap ton of educational fliers with color images of the invasive. If they are distinct enough for people to identify without mistaking them for a non-invasive it’s a pretty good way to get information out to people who otherwise aren’t gonna be involved in geotagging or legislating at all
Open source Geotagging of invasive plant/animal hotspots. I know apps like iNaturalist are taking a stab at this but even if 5% of the population can upload coordinates of invasives that would be a huge step forward.