{"id":10142,"date":"2016-04-26T10:47:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T14:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=10142"},"modified":"2017-04-14T15:35:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T19:35:29","slug":"statewide-eyes-program-calls-on-citizens-to-help-find-invasive-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2016\/04\/26\/statewide-eyes-program-calls-on-citizens-to-help-find-invasive-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Statewide Eyes Program Calls on Citizens to Help Find Invasive Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>Department to Host Trainings Statewide, Seeks Participants<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 407px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dnr2.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/PublishingImages\/statewide-eyes-tyler-annalise.jpg\" alt=\"Statewide Eyes participants on the hunt for invasive plants\" width=\"397\" height=\"320\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Statewide Eyes participants on the hunt for invasive plants<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Citizens and scientists are working together to tackle the problem of invasive plants on state lands through the Maryland Department of Natural Resources\u2019 new <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr2.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/statewide_eyes.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Statewide Eyes program<\/a>. Statewide Eyes is seeking people\u00a0interested in\u00a0identifying and mapping invasive plants that threaten ecologically sensitive sites.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that invasive plants are out in the landscape threatening rare species and habitats, but we need better information about which species are where, and what kinds of risks they pose,\u201d Kerrie Kyde, the department\u2019s invasive plant ecologist said. \u201cWith the help of trained citizen scientists our department can discover vital information about these plants much more efficiently than we can on our own.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Naturalists and other state land users are invited to sign up for a Statewide Eyes training session, taking place at <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr2.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/statewide_eyes.aspx\">sites across the state this spring<\/a>. Here, participants will learn about\u00a0invasive plants and how to use the free\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eddmaps.org\/midatlantic\/\">Mid-Atlantic Early Detection Network<\/a> smartphone app to identify, map,\u00a0document and report\u00a0them. The Mid-Atlantic Early Detection Network sends user\u00a0data to a national mapping service where the reports are available for expert analysis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe information gathered through Statewide Eyes will give us tremendous power to plan and carry out invasive plant management work in the places where we can have the most impact,\u201d Kyde said. \u201cIt will allow us to find invaders <em>before<\/em> they cover too much territory for us to remove them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information or to register for training, <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr2.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/statewide_eyes.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department to Host Trainings Statewide, Seeks Participants Citizens and scientists are working together to tackle the problem of invasive plants on state lands through the Maryland Department of Natural Resources\u2019 new Statewide Eyes program. Statewide Eyes is seeking people\u00a0interested in\u00a0identifying and mapping invasive plants that threaten ecologically sensitive sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-wildlife"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10142"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10158,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10142\/revisions\/10158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}