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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
New awards program of the Missouri Invasive Plant Task Force to recognize exemplary work in invasive plant early detection and control.
JEFFERSON CITY (May 13, 2019)—As public awareness grows about the harmful effects of invasive plants, the Missouri Invasive Plant Task Force (MoIP) seeks to recognize individuals and groups performing outstanding work controlling invasive plant species on property in Missouri. Nominations for Invasive Plant Action awards are open now through July 1, 2019.
Nomination categories are for individual landowners, group collaborators, and researchers. Self-nomination is welcome; a recommendation by a natural resource professional is required to be eligible.
“There are many individuals and groups carrying out impressive invasive species control in every corner of the state,” says Carol Davit, chair of MoIP and executive director of the Missouri Prairie Foundation. “We want to recognize those doing exemplary work and present them with an aware at an event of the awardee’s choice to be honored in front of their peers.”
By definition, invasive plants are those not native to a region whose abundance and/or rapid spread harm economic and environmental resources. The Action Awards seek to demonstrate how control the spread of invasive plants on Missouri farms, forests, woodlands, prairies, , gardens, roadsides and along waterways is wise stewardship.
Members of MoIP will evaluate nominations. MoIP is a resource of the Grow Native! program and the Missouri Prairie Foundation.
For more information and to submit nominations, please visit http://moinvasives.org/moip-invasive-plant-action-awards/
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The Missouri Invasive Plant Task Force (MoIP) is a resource of Grow Native!—a 19-year-old native plant marketing and education program serving the lower Midwest. Grow Native! is administratively housed by the nonprofit Missouri Prairie Foundation. For more information about MoIP, visit www.moinvasives.org; for more on the Grow Native! program at grownative.org or for more on the Missouri Prairie Foundation visit moprairie.org.