Extractions: Buckwheat family (Polygonaceae) NATIVE RANGE: Eastern Asia DESCRIPTION: Japanese knotweed is an upright, shrublike, herbaceous perennial that can grow to over 10 feet in height. As with all members of this family, the base of the stem above each joint is surrounded by a membranous sheath. Stems of Japanese knotweed are smooth, stout and swollen at joints where the leaf meets the stem. Although leaf size may vary, they are normally about 6 inches long by 3 to 4 inches wide, broadly oval to somewhat triangular and pointed at the tip. The minute greenish-white flowers occur in attractive, branched sprays in summer and are followed soon after by small winged fruits. Seeds are triangular, shiny, and very small, about 1/10 inch long. Japanese knotweed is designated a noxious weed in the State of Washington. ECOLOGICAL THREAT: Japanese knotweed spreads quickly to form dense thickets that exclude native vegetation and greatly alter natural ecosystems. It poses a significant threat to riparian areas, where it can survive severe floods and is able to rapidly colonize scoured shores and islands. Once established, populations are extremely persistent. DISTRIBUTION IN THE UNITED STATES: Current distribution of Japanese knotweed includes 36 states in the lower 48 from Maine to Wisconsin south to Louisiana, and scattered midwest and western states. It is not currently known to occur in Hawaii.
Extractions: When we first started this project we identified 27 volunteer water quality monitoring programs sponsored or co-sponsored by Cooperative Extension in the United States and its territories. Now we are up to 38! We are always looking for programs we have missed and have had help from people across the country to find 'new' programs. Our latest change to this page was to identify which programs are sponsored or co-sponsored by Cooperative Extension and which are affiliated in other ways such as by providing technical assistance with trainings, educational materials, equipment, or meeting space for volunteer monitoring events. The map above shows where and to what extent Cooperative Extension is involved in volunteer water quality monitoring across the nation. Not shown is an Extension co-sponsored program in American Samoa. The first of these programs began in 1978, the most recent this year. In parentheses next to each program's name is the year that the program began. Program volunteers are monitoring a wide range of aquatic habitats including rivers, streams, lakes, ponds, wetlands, estuaries, and drinking water wells.
Wisconsin Teaching Scholars 2005 Family Development UWextension / coop ext Eagle River, WI 54521 For moreinformation about the wisconsin Teaching Fellows Program, contact http://www.uwsa.edu/opid/wts/05-06.htm
Wisconsin Teaching Fellows 2005 UWCE Technology Services UW-extension / coop ext Madison, WI 53706 For moreinformation about the wisconsin Teaching Fellows Program, contact http://www.uwsa.edu/opid/wtf/05-06.htm
Assets Across America State Asset Networks Univ. of Arkansas coop ext. service (CES) www.uaex.edu The University of Arkansascooperative extension service sponsors a Statewide Asset Building http://www.ctassets.org/aaa/statenetworks.cfm
POMF 2806 Page GOV PAYROLL OFFICE NUMBER 12050301 USDA coop ext. service ALABAMA C/O THOMAS USDA coop ext service MISSOURI ATTN TAMMY BLACKWELL 802 CLARK HALL http://webwtc.opm.gov/raft/html/pomf2806.shtml
Extractions: New User About the Agency What's New Quick Index ... Career Opportunities Payroll Office Contacts for Retirement Inquiries To locate a specific item, select EDIT from the menu bar, then select FIND (on this page). In the prompt box, type the agency name, payroll office number, or other item. Each time you click "Find Next," you will get the next word on the page that matches your FIND entry. Return to Government Payroll Contacts NAVAL AIR STATION LEMOORE, CA 93246-0000 TELEPHONE (559) 998-3331
Natural Resources Extension Professionals Conference Chris Waddill, Dean and Director, Florida cooperative extension service, Universityof University of Arkansas coop. ext. service, Little Rock, AR http://conference.ifas.ufl.edu/nrep/
Extractions: The Cooperative Extension Service was established to provide a non-traditional approach of applying research knowledge to help resolve community issues. Extension has developed a strong tradition and an excellent reputation for serving the same clientele base extremely well. However, this tradition is now preventing Extension from effectively addressing many other issues that have emerged during the past century. The theme to be explored during this conference is whether another rapid (revolutionary) or a more gradual (evolutionary) rate of change should occur to make Extension more relevant in todays communities and the role of natural resource extension programming in this revision. Who Should Attend Natural resource extension professionals and those who work with or would like to partner with these educators in environmental education, fisheries, wildlife, range, forestry, forest products, toxicology, ecotourism, water conservation and quality, sea grant, public policy, nature interpretation, watershed planning, ecological economics, rural development and other related disciplines. The primary audience consists of three groups: 1) Extension personnel at state 1862, 1890 and 1994 Land Grant Institutions (county faculty, county directors, district directors, specialists, department chairs, state program leaders and state directors); 2) National program leaders, and other staff with the USDA Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service; 3) Natural resource educators from other governmental agencies and private not-for-profit organizations.
2005 ESP Chapter Presidents Delaware SUSAN TRUEHARTGAREY coop ext 69 Transportation Circle Dover, Director Purdue cooperative extension service 228 Second Street Aurora, http://espnational.org/chptpres.htm
Extractions: S ALPHA PI - Alabama REBECCA DOLLMAN State LeaderProgram Development 217 Dawson Hall P.O. Box 1088 Normal, AL 35762-1088 Phone: 256-372-4976 Fax: 256-372-5734 E-Mail: rdollman@aces.edu W ALPHA GAMMA - Alaska HOLLIS HALL 3511 Kreb Drive Fairbanks, AK 99709 Phone: 907-479-0617 Fax: E-Mail: hdhall@alaska.net W KAPPA - Arizona MATT LIVINGSTON P.O. Box 1203 Keams Canyon, AZ 86034-1203 Phone: 928-734-3708 Fax: 928-738-2360 E-Mail: mateo@cals.arizona.edu S ALPHA IOTA - Arkansas REBECCA MC PEAKE UA-CES P.O. Box 391 Little Rock, AR 72015 Phone: 501-671-2285 Fax: 501-671-2110 E-Mail: rmcpeake@uaex.edu W ZETA - Colorado KIPP NYE County Director; Agriculture / 4-H Youth Development P.O. Box 128 Simia, CO 80835-0128 Phone: 719-541-2361 Fax: 719-541-2982 E-Mail: kipp.nye@colostate.edu NE ALPHA CHI - Connecticut MARY ELLEN WELCH Extension Educator, Family and Consumer Middlesex County Extension Center 1066 Saybrook Rd., Box 70 Haddam, CT 06438-0070 Phone: 860-345-4511 Fax: 860-345-3357 E-Mail: mary.welch@uconn.edu
Community And Rural Development Institute Cornell provides periodic inservice education on the TAP program for cooperativeextension Mary Lou Brewer, Assistant Director, Cornell coop. ext. http://www.cardi.cornell.edu/health_and_safety/community_health_decisions/000248
Extractions: The Teen Assessment Program (TAP) is a unique university-community partnership. Representing a significant departure from traditional methods that divide academic researchers from the communities they study, the TAP process involves communities as important partners in research that focuses on teens. From that partnership comes a broad community commitment to embrace and act upon research findings to make their community a better place for youth. Frequently, parents, school personnel and policy-makers cannot believe that research results apply to their children. The drug use, despair, sexual activity and other negative experiences revealed among some teenaged youth are thought to be "big city" issues, or at least those of less advantaged communities. But as important partners in the study design, implementation and dissemination, communities paticipating in TAP uncover and embrace solid evidence of both the problems faced and supports needed by their youth. In this way, the Teen Assessment Program delivers valid, affordable research data on the youth of any particular county or school. Parents, schools, policy-makers and youth can begin to improve conditions by exercising the power of their knowledge.
Suggested References For The Home Fruit Gardener coop. ext. Serv. Univ. of Mass. 55 pp. cooperative extension System is aneducational service that is supported by county, state, and federal monies. http://ssfruit.cas.psu.edu/appendix/appendix3.htm
Crop Profiles University of Massachusetts Cooperative extension service. 32 pp. Cranberry weedcontrol in wisconsin. Univ. Wisc. ext. Bull. A2226, 4 pp. http://pestdata.ncsu.edu/cropprofiles/docs/wicranberries.html
Extractions: Production Regions In Wisconsin, there are 15,000 acres located in several counties in west central and northern part of the state. Cranberries are grown in beds that have been drained, cleared, leveled and covered with sand to level the bed before the crop is planted to selected vines (12). The sand layer, over a natural peat bog, provides a better rooting zone for cranberries than the peat itself, and helps reduce weed seed germination (42). Six- to eight-inch lengths of vine cuttings are scattered uniformly over the sand and are then disked to a depth of 3-4 inches. Several years are required to reach full production. Important cultural practices for maintaining good productivity of established beds include pruning, sanding, fertilization, and water management. Beds are pruned after harvest to stimulate the production of uprights and to prevent the runners from becoming matted and reducing productivity (42). A thin layer of sand spread over the bed stimulates new root and vine growth, improves aeration and drainage of surface water thereby reducing disease development, and levels out low spots to make dry harvesting easier. Ammonium or urea nitrogen fertilizers, in granular or liquid formulations, and other major and minor elements, are applied as necessary for optimum growth and to prevent deficiencies (42).
Ruffed Grouse Society - Coverts Program University of CT coop. ext.Ctr 139 Wolf Den Rd. Brooklyn, CT 062341729 wisconsin. Jamie Nack Univ. WI-Madison Dept. of Wildlife Ecology 1630 Linden Dr. http://www.ruffedgrousesociety.org/covertsprogram.asp
Seed Lot Sampling North Dakota, Ohio, and wisconsin in cooperation with ESUSDA. P32. coop. ext.Serv., Auburn Universityfrom which some of this discussion was derived. http://www.ext.nodak.edu/extpubs/plantsci/smgrains/ncr403w.htm
Extractions: M.K. Misra, agricultural engineer. Sponsored by the Extension Services of Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri. North Dakota, Ohio, and Wisconsin in cooperation with ESUSDA. Careful sampling of a seed lot is an important step in obtaining a sample which accurately reflects the characteristics of the seed lot. Aside from carefully controlled production and conditioning practices, painstaking sampling is actually the first step in assuring accuracy and precision in seed testing. The purpose of seed testing is to obtain information regarding the planting value of seed in any particular seed lot. For testing to be meaningful, seed samples must be properly collected. Seed tests often generate information which must, by law, appear on the seed label and/or is required for obtaining a phytosanitary certificate. Both the seed producer and the buyer rely on accurate laboratory information. Seed testing laboratories therefore must have modern equipment and well trained analysts. However, seed lot sampling may be beyond the control of the seed analyst conducting tests on the submitted sample. And if the submitted sample is not representative of the seed lot, the laboratory analyses cannot accurately reflect the planting value of that seed. The Seed Lot A seed lot can be defined as a quantity of seed with every portion or every bag uniform within permitted tolerances as to percentage of pure seed, inert matter, other crop seed, germination and dormant seed, weed seed, and rate of occurrence of noxious weed seeds. A quantity of seed which is not uniform within permitted representative tolerances should not be classified as a seed lot. Any variation should be reduced by further conditioning, by mixing, or by separating the quantity in question into two or more uniform lots.
FSCPE Contacts Mr. William Tillman, Jr. (E,P) (919) 7337061 ext. 279 Office of State Budgetand Management wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services http://www.census.gov/population/www/coop/coop.html
My Master Gardener Page Los Angeles Master Gardeners , Univ. of Calif. coop. ext. Florida Countycooperative extension service Master Gardener Coordinators http://www.hal-pc.org/~trobb/mastgar.html
Extractions: You are visitor A separate and distinct area of gardening is that of the Master Gardener - the voluntary arm of the Agricultural Extension Services. As a Past President and member of the Harris County Master Gardener Association (Houston, Texas), I am more familiar with the Texas Master Gardener program but Master Gardening is nationwide in scope and on this page I will be attempting to put it all together. I am often asked the question, "Who and what are 'Master Gardeners'"? The following comments, questions and answers are geared primarily to the Texas Master Gardener Program. However, with slight differences, they also apply to all 50 states since all now have "Master Gardener Programs". They also generally apply in the four Canadian provinces with the program except for the sponsorship of Cooperative Extension agencies. Master Gardeners are members of the local community who take an active interest in their lawns, trees, shrubs, flowers and gardens. They are enthusiastic, willing to learn and to help others, and able to communicate with diverse groups of people. What really sets Master Gardeners apart from other home gardeners is their special training in horticulture. In exchange for their training, persons who become Master Gardeners contribute time as volunteers, working through their cooperative Extension office to provide horticulture-related information to their communities.
Extension Housing Sites http//www.uaf.alaska.edu/coopext/publications/pub_toc.html North Carolinacooperative extension service Family Consumer Sciences http://outreach.missouri.edu/edninfo/exthsng.htm
NALMS Committees University of New Hampshire, coop ext 133 Spaulding Hall 38 College Road University of wisconsinStevens Point UWEX-Lake 1900 Franklin St. http://www.nalms.org/member/committees.htm
UW-Extension UDDS Listing University of wisconsinMadison, Skip navigation UW-Madison Home Page LIFE SCI56 T45 5102 coop ext ADMINISTRATION 56 T45 5103 CALS BUSINESS SERVICES 6 http://www.bussvc.wisc.edu/acct/udds/uddst.html
Florist New Haven Connecticut, Connecticut Agric., coop. ext. Serv. S544.3.N3C66 ISSN 08951985 Reno, Nev. The College.Fact sheet - cooperative extension service, University of Maryland Fact sheet http://creekin.net/k19675-n210-florist-new-haven-connecticut-connecticut.html
Extractions: Five New York Business Owners Plead Guilty to Tax Evasion Scheme (October 15, 2004) (D. New Jersey) ... Two Former Directors of the New York Racing Association's Pari-Mutuel Department Plead Guilty to Scheme to Defraud the United States (May 6, 2004) (E.D. New York) ... Hudson County Newspaper Publisher Sentenced to 12 Months for Tax Evasion (November 15, 2004) (D. New Jersey) ... [ Read More
Jackson coop. ext. Serv., Univ. of wisconsinextension, Madison, WI. Webendorfer, B., andGW Jackson. 1986. Drinking water contamination Understanding the risks. http://www.soils.wisc.edu/soils/people/emeritus/jackson.html
Extractions: gwjackso@facstaff.wisc.edu Principal Area of Interest Land use and water quality, nonpoint source pollution Appointment Extension 100% Teaching and Administration My work as the National Extension Farmstead Assessment System (FarmASyst) Program Director results in extensive education program development in cooperation with the Environmental Protection Agency, Soil Conservation Service, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, other state Extension services and state water quality agencies. Primary responsibilities include the development and coordination of support materials, training and education programs that facilitate implementation of USDA water quality projects and assist states in adapting FarmASyst materials and delivery approaches for their use. There are currently eight USDA Demonstration Projects and seventy-four hydrologic unit projects. All demonstration projects and more than forty hydrologic unit projects and more than forty states have requested assistance in developing, delivering and evaluating a FarmASyst program. The voluntary FarmASyst program contains 24 publications and worksheets that can be used by farmers to identify drinking water contamination risks. Interagency involvement in the development of these materials is necessary to insure their technical and policy accuracy. This interagency cooperation is also necessary for effective training and implementation programs.
