Week highlights invasives among us

July 07, 2014
Karen Maserjian Shan
Poughkeepsie Journal

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Week highlights invasives among us

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Linda Rohleder of the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference is coordinator of the Lower Hudson Partnerships for Regional Invasive Species Management, one of eight regional groups across the state organizing Ivasive Species Awareness Week activities through local organizations, events and individuals.

"I think New York State as a whole has been ramping up its invasive species effort," said Rohleder, including a more active leadership of the issue.

Rohleder said in our region, which includes the counties of New York, Bronx, Rockland, Westchester, Putnam, Orange, Dutchess and lower Ulster, efforts are centered on encouraging adults and children to look, learn and lend a hand, from things such as reporting on invasive species to removing invasive plants and educating others. . . .