Invasive exotic plant monitoring at Colorado National Monument: 2019 field season

Invasive exotic plant (IEP) species are a significant threat to natural ecosystem integrity and biodiversity, and controlling them is a high priority for the National Park Service. The North-ern Colorado Plateau Network (NCPN) selected the early detection of IEPs as one of 11 monitoring protocols to be implemented as part of its long-term monitoring program. This report represents work completed at Colorado National Monument during 2019. During monitoring conducted June 12–19, a total of 20 IEP species were detected on monitoring routes and transects. Of these, 12 were priority species that accounted for 791 separate IEP patches. IEPs were most prevalent along riparian areas. Yellow sweetclover (Melilotis officinale) and yellow salsify (Tragopogon dubius) were the most commonly detected priority IEPs along monitoring routes, representing 73% of all priority patches. Patches of less than 40 m2 were typical of nearly all priority IEP species except yellow sweetclover. A patch management index (PMI) was created by combining patch size class and percent cover for each patch. In 2019, a large majority of priority IEP patches were assigned a PMI score of low (46%) or very low (50%), indicating small and/or sparse patches where control is generally still feasible. This is similar to the numbers for 2017, when 99% of patches scored low or very low in PMI. Seventy-eight percent of tree patches were classified as seedlings or saplings, which require less effort to control than mature trees. Cheatgrass (Anisantha tectorum) was the most common IEP recorded in transects, found in 30–77% of transects across the different routes. It was the only species found in transects on all monitoring routes. When treated and untreated extra areas near the West Entrance were compared, the treated area had comparable or higher lev-els of IEPs than the untreated area. When segments of monitoring routes conducted between 2003 and 2019 were compared, results were mixed, due to the different species monitored in different time periods. But in general, the number of IEPs per 100 meters is increasing or remaining constant over time. There were notable increases in IEP patches per 100 meters on several routes in 2019: field bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis) along East Glade Park Road; Siberian elm (Ulmus pumila) in Red Canyon; yellow salsify along East Glade Park Road, No Thoroughfare Canyon, No Thoroughfare Trail, and Red Canyon; and yellow sweetclover in No Thoroughfare Canyon and Red Canyon. Network staff will return to re-sample monitoring routes in 2021.

Strategi pengelolaan taman median jalan di Kota Pekanbaru

Research with the aim of making an inventory of various types of plants, management, maintenance, monitoring, monitoring of road users and formulating a road park management strategy in Pekanbaru City was carried out in January 2020. The research location was in 21 Median Park Road in Pekanbaru City. Descriptive research approach with observation method. The research sample was determined by 3 daily freelance officers / median park road. and 5 road users per road in Jalan Median Park as well as interviews with the Pekanbaru City Parks and Cleanliness Service Staff. The collected data will be presented in a narrative and discussed descriptively. The road median park management strategy in Pekanbaru City was prepared using a SWOT analysis. The results showed that the inventory of plant species diversity in road median parks in Pekanbaru City were Aglonena, Bougenville, Ornamental Banana, Daffodil, Red Soka, Batavia, Oleander, Mawar, Tongue-in-Law, Ketapang Kencana, Palem, Angsana, Bintan, Pulai, Tanjung, Butterfly Tree, Azahra Plant, Japanese Bamboo, Tasbih Flower, Drasena, Yellow Pruning, Ornamental Pineapple, Landep, Tapak Dara, Paris Lilies, Spinach, White Taiwan, Brazilian Lilies, Blood Symbols, Iris, Lantana, White Lilies, Bombay Sutra, Adam Eve, Ruelia Purple Flower. Landscape management (planning, maintenance) of road median parks in Pekanbaru City still has not followed the established SOP. The perception of road users towards the road median park in Pekanbaru City is good, but there are still plants that must be maintained by the relevant Agency. The road median park management strategy in Pekanbaru City is to urge schools in Pekanbaru City to take part in the management of the median park road, involve business and industry players in managing road median parks, planting croton plants that function as aesthetics and absorb pollutants, improve facilities and infrastructure in the road median park, Providing socialization to the community about the importance of preserving the road median park, Providing counseling to casual daily officers regarding the function of the road median park.

Overview of roadkills in the Serra da Macaca Park Road (SP-139), state of São Paulo, Brazil

ABSTRACT Fatalities involving wildlife on roads and highways due to collisions with automotive vehicles represent a severe threat to the conservation of several species of terrestrial vertebrates throughout the world. However, in addition to the negative impact caused by collisions, there are also serious social and economic implications that arise from this situation. This study aims at qualifying and quantifying the collisions with fauna in the Serra da Macaca Park Road (SP-139), since the end of the revitalization work that the road was underwent - in 2015 - over a stretch of 33 km that crosses the Parque Estadual Carlos Botelho (PECB), as well as identifying the predisposing factors that lead to such accidents. The ecological analyses were generated by a combination of the records kept by the fiscalization service of the Fundação Florestal and samples collected in the field. In total, the loss of 80 individuals belonging to 27 species was recorded over an estimated period of three years. Reptiles were the most affected group, followed by mammals. A significant part of the animals was unable to be recognized to the species level, since the taxonomic identification was conducted based on the morphology of the external characteristics and several of the carcasses were completely dilacerated. We identified that the temporal variations in the fatalities are related mainly to the intensity of the traffic in the road and to the differential response of herpetofauna to the stimuli of seasonality.

Supplemental Material: Lithologic, geomorphic, and permafrost controls on recent landsliding in the Alaska Range

Plate S1: 1:24,000 scale map of the surficial geology of the Denali National Park road corridor. Table S1: Landslide inventory data, including coordinates of the initiation site and slope characteristics of the landslides evaluated.

Supplemental Material: Lithologic, geomorphic, and permafrost controls on recent landsliding in the Alaska Range

Plate S1: 1:24,000 scale map of the surficial geology of the Denali National Park road corridor. Table S1: Landslide inventory data, including coordinates of the initiation site and slope characteristics of the landslides evaluated.

The signs of an English street

Street signs are an everyday part of our lives. Yet their language and form reveal important aspects of written English. The aim of this article is to open the reader's eyes to some common features of English street signs by looking at some of the signs in a typical street, Leazes Park Road in Newcastle upon Tyne. On one side of Leazes Park Road the buildings are three-storey nineteenth-century brick townhouses, on the other assorted modern brick and concrete offices, shops and clubs. It is a mixed street of dentists, offices, shops, restaurants, flats and clubs; its signs are typical of English city streets. The paper forms part of a research programme looking at street signs in England from different perspectives (Cook, 2013); a complementary short paper looks at the signs of the traffic junction in Leazes Park Road.