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How can adaptive management and monitoring be incorporated into controlling and/or eradicating non-native invasive plants?
Baseline conditions of the project area should be documented before any work is done in order to compare post-project and long-term site conditions to pre-project conditions. Criteria that could be tracked and periodically compared to baseline conditions to monitor project effectiveness and success and feed into an adaptive management process include: continued absence of eradicated invasive plant species and natural recruitment in the eradication areas by native riparian plant species (to be determined through photo documentation and riparian plant monitoring), and increased presence of native riparian vegetation (to be determined by vegetation surveys).
Periodic or event-driven (following a major disturbance) monitoring of the project area will ensure that any project maintenance needs are noted and corrected in a timely manner. Maintenance requirements could potentially include reseeding the area, and the removal/treatment of resprouts and/or new invasive species that may encroach on the study site.
Non-native Invasive Plant Removal
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