[Partners-IMCWMA] purple loosestrife in Mendocino - Eel River????

[David Bengston]

Michelle:  I left a phone message for you a few minutes ago.  There was an attempt to survey for Purple Loosestrife in 2000 funded by a grant from he National Fish & Wildlife Foundation, Mr. Gary Kania.  This was after it was found in both Humboldt County and Sonoma County.  They were omitting Mendocino County from the survey, so I wrote a letter to them explaining that the headwaters for both rivers are in Mendocino County, and in addition, that the Russian R. gets water from the main branch of the Eel at Van Arsdale.  So, we were included in the survey.  But, I cannot remember how successful it was on the Eel.  We did find some on the Russian, but we think we found the person responsible for planting it, and I do not think that it came upstream from the Eel R.
 
The person in charge of this effort at the time was Carri Benefield, now Carri Pirosko @ CDFA.  Her phone number been 530-545-9119.  The current person at CDFA that is in charge of the Purple Loosestrife program is David Kratville @ 916-654-0684.  I have left messages with both of them and I will try to forward your email to them.  If you don't hear back from me, I would recommend that you call both of them to see what they might know.
 
 
 
David Bengston
Agricultural Commissioner/Sealer
Mendocino County
890 No. Bush Street
Ukiah, CA 95482
Tel. 707-463-4208, Fax 707-463-0240
bengstod at co.mendocino.ca.us

>>> MFORYS at parks.ca.gov 5/1/2007 7:25 PM >>>

Tara and WMA,
 
I hope all is well.  Recently, State Parks and USFWS have been working on a project to treat purple loosestrife along the South Fork and Main Stem of the Eel River.  The headwaters for this watershed is in Mendocino County.  We are only aware of purple loosestrife  occurring in Humboldt County along these rivers.  Do you know if anyone has every surveyed for purple loosestrife in the S. Fork of the Eel River in Mendocino?  Could you ask around to see if you do not know?  Finally who would we talk with in the WMA about possibly getting help to survey that portion of the watershed.  We got a grant for two years of treatment and do not want to waste our time or funds if the river is only going to be reinfested from plants up stream (Mendocino).   
 
Thanks for your help,
 

Michelle Forys


 
Environmental Scientist
North Coast Redwoods District
California State Parks
4150 Patrick's Point Dr.
Trinidad, CA 95570
Office: (707) 677-3109
Fax: (707) 677-9521



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