Description: Target non-native invasive species including common reed grass (Phragmites australis), common and cut-leaved teasel (Dipsacus sylvestris, D. laciniatus), Japanese knotweed (Polygonum cuspidatum), and wild parsnip (Pastinaca sativa) were mapped by resident volunteers along the roadways of Sheboygan, Washington, Ozaukee, Waukesha, Milwaukee, Walworth, Racine and Kenosha Counties in Wisconsin.The data were submitted by volunteer surveyors on paper maps and data sheets and then entered into this geodatabase. The database is continually updated as the volunteers submit new data.
Service Item Id: 74e0d3198b4241a6b3a034fc0e269eae
Copyright Text: This project was funded by: USDA Forest Service Participating Agreement #10-PA-11090100-36and Domestic Grant #12-DG-11420004-003. Funding was also provided by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Citizen-based Monitoring Partnership Program.
The data was collected by SEWISC citizen volunteers.
The original field survey was developed by: Jill Hapner, Ph.D., GeoBotany Systems; and Marc White, White Ecological. The geodatabase was developed by: Jill Hapner, Ph.D., GeoBotany Systems and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student interns, David Winston and Alex Kasprzak.