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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20061130T190000
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URL:https://newtonconservators.org/events/invasive-alien-plant-update-a-ne
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SUMMARY:Invasive Alien Plant Update - A Newton Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Peter Alden\nAuthor\, lecturer\, and naturalist\n\nThe City of 
 Newton is under attack from alien invaders. They have come from far away a
 nd are taking over our back yards\, parks\, and conservation areas. Slowly
  and quietly they are creeping into our public open spaces\, disrupting th
 e natural balance of nature and crowding out our native plants Some of the
 m\, like purple loosestrife\, are quite pretty but take over our wetlands\
 ; others like Japanese knotweed grow tall extremely fast while spreading f
 arther afield underground\; still others are even sold at garden stores to
  unsuspecting customers. Well known author\, lecturer and naturalist Peter
  Alden\, from Concord\, MA\, will present a lecture and slideshow with a s
 tunning display of the twenty worst invasive alien plants in the Newton ar
 ea. You will come away from the presentation with the knowledge of how to 
 recognize these plants and what some of the control options are. You will 
 find out what is happening at the state level and in the legislature in ho
 w to deal with severe menace to our city's biodiversity. The lecturer will
  also conduct an instant village by village poll of attendees to try to as
 sess where in Newton these invasives pose the most threat. He has in prepa
 ration a new "Field Guide to the Invasive Plants of New England and the No
 rtheast".\n\nPeter Alden was the inaugural speaker in the Conservators lec
 ture series (now celebrating its 5th anniversary). Alden\, a renowned bird
 er and entertaining and informative speaker\, has led over 250 ecotours to
  over a hundred countries on all seven continents and lectured all over th
 e world for travel and museum organizations. In his work for the Massachus
 etts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs\, he spearheaded the first 
 ever statewide Biodiversity Days\, in which citizen naturalists in over 80
  Massachusetts towns went out into the field to do a species census. This 
 provided a valuable and interesting snapshot of common and unusual species
  present both here in Newton and across the state of Massachusetts. He is 
 the author of over a dozen nature field guides including the groundbreakin
 g "National Audubon Society Field Guide to New England" (Knopf\, 1998). Th
 is book is an easy to use field guide for identifying 1\,000 of our region
 's wildflowers\, trees\, mushrooms\, mosses\, fishes\, amphibians\, reptil
 es\, birds\, butterflies\, mammals and much more. Other regional field gui
 des in the series cover California\, Florida\, the Mid-Atlantic States\, t
 he Pacific Northwest\, Rocky Mountain States\, and the Southwestern States
 . For younger naturalists\, along with Roger Tory Peterson\, he produced t
 he Peterson First Guide to Mammals of North America and coloring books for
  both birds and mammals. Other of his books include "The National Audubon 
 Society Field Guide to African Wildlife" (1995) and "Finding Birds Around 
 the World" (1982). Signed copies of his field guide will be available befo
 re and after the lecture.\n\nWatch the lecture on video: Part 1 Part 2\n\n
 The free Newton Conservators Lecture Series \, now in its fifth year\, is 
 cosponsored by the Newton Conservators and the Newton Free Library.
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LOCATION:Newton Free Library\, 330 Homer Street\, Newton Centre\, MA\, Unit
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