Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
Issued almost 10 years ago
Summary
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The Phragmites control effort of 1993 was initiated as part of a cooperative program with the state of Virginias Division of Natural Heritage, called the Southern Watershed Common Reedgrass Control Project. They agreed to treat approximately 100 acres of Refuge property with dense Phragmites concentrations. These treatment areas consist of sites in Tracts 126 829 Sandbridge Road, 104 Riggs Tract, and in A and B pools on the Refuge. In late August, Ken Clark of the Division of Natural Heritage and the Refuge finalized the sites to be treated. On September 7, two line transects were established; one through a treatment site and the other through an untreated control site.