NEWSLETTER ARCHIVES

Starting in June 2017, MIPN transitioned from producing a long-form pdf newsletter to shorter emailed newsletters, using a web-based design platform. We currently aim to get a newsletter out bi-monthly. Check out our archived newsletters and topics below. To receive the newsletter directly, please sign up here!

 

Spring 2021

  • Keep Keeping a Look Out for Mile-a-Minute!
  • Free MIPN Webinar June 10 -- Invasive Plants of the Future Midwest
  • Revegetating Invasive-Prone Sites with Native Plants -- New Guides
  • Listserv Rebooted in 2021
  • Save the Date! UMISC 2022
  • The Wood Shed (Updates about the WIGL Collaborative)
  • Woody Landscape Alternatives Brochure Coming in June!
  • Introducing the Woody Invasive Research Digest (WIGL WIRD)
  • WIGL Summit Videos

 

Fall 2020

  • A Forest Without Invasive Creepers: Doesn't that Sound De-vine?
  • UMISC 2020 & WIGL Summit
  • 2020 Membership Campaign
  • New Lifecycle Infographics on MIPN Website
  • MIPN Goes Hi-Tech!
  • Mystery Seeds Revisited
  • A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words...

 

July 2020

  • WIGL Collaborative Website Launch!
  • Free Webinar Sign Up
  • Free Fall Woody Invasives Summit
  • Room for Improvement

 

July/August 2019

  • Early detection - European frog-bit near Lake Michigan
  • Examining the spotted lanternfly and tree-of-heaven relationship
  • Member Project Spotlights: Hawkeye CWMA and Iowa highway management
  • Rights-of-way as pollinator habitat

 

May/June 2019

  • Updates to MIPN's regional plant list
  • How one nonprofit is fostering thriving public/private partnerships to protect rare ecosystems
  • Partner Spotlights: successful outcomes from Michigan’s Invasive Species Grant Program
  • Early findings and press coverage of MIPN's work with public gardens

 

March/April 2019

  • It's Official! Indiana's Terrestrial Plant Rule
  • Garlic Mustard Biocontrol Testing in Ontario
  • Member Project Spotlights: Door County Inspiring Public and Private Commitment
  • New Research: Family Forest Owners

 

January/February 2019

  • What Makes a Good Landscape Alternative?
  • Member Project Spotlights: NW Michigan ISN's Go Beyond Beauty and the EDRR Network Ontario's Successful Garlic Mustard Pull Program 
  • New Resources to Help CWMAs Revegetate Sites After Treatment

 

November/December 2018

  • Bamboozled by Bamboo
  • Updates on Efforts in Indiana, Iowa, and Missouri
  • Three new MIPN board members

 

September/October 2018

  • MIPN's First-Ever Annual Summary
  • Fall Identification of Woody Species
  • UMISC 2018 Highlights

 

July/August 2018

  • Invaded Lakes: Treating the Part vs. the Whole
  • Invasive Plant Cultivars: Guilty Until Proven Innocent?

 

May/June 2018 (correction here)

  • Giant Hogweed
  • Mistaken Identity - American Bittersweet
  • New resources: groundcovers and aquatic invasives

 

March/April 2018

  • MIPN's new assistant
  • Seeking Invasive Plant Control Case Studies
  • New risk assessment sub-page on MIPN website
  • USDA's "New Invaders" guide
  • Additions to Midwest Invasive Plant List

 

January/February 2018

 

November/December 2017

  • New regional collaborative for woody invaders
  • MIPN webinars
  • State of the State: Ohio

 

September/October 2017 (pdf)

  • "Plants on the Move" public garden summit summary
  • UMISC 2018 Save the Date
  • MIPN.org content refresh announcements

 

August 2017 (pdf)

  • New aquatic invasive plant populations
    • European frogbit near Cleveland, OH
    • Starry stonewort near Duluth, MN
  • Where Ecology Meets Economy announcement
  • Research spotlight: impact of hydrolic fracturing wellpads on invasive plant spread in PA
  • Precipitation patterns and potential impacts on wetland invasive spread

 

July 2017 (pdf)

  • Invasive plant spotlight: teasels
  • CWMA formation work in the Missouri Ozarks
  • Goat grazing for invasive plant control: examples, scientific studies, and potential pitfalls

 

June 2017 (pdf)

  • Regional plant list update
  • NAIPC webinar announcement
  • Addition to MIPN Board of Directors
  • MIPN in the news (invasive plants in landscaping and EDRR)
  • Research spotlight: legacy impacts Japanese stiltgrass invasion
  • Top 10 native pollinator plants recommended by USFS botanists

 

Spring 2017 (pdf)

  • Meet the MIPN Coordinator
  • Advancements in biocontrol research for garlic mustard
  • State program updates
  • MIPN Conferences in review: UMISC 2016, Iowa Invasive Species Conference
  • Invasive plant spotlight: Palmer amaranth
  • Research spotlight: Effectiveness of mechanical control for swallowwort