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<br><div style="font-family: tahoma,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" dir="ltr"> <hr size="1">-----Original Message-----<br>From: "Whitepine chapter INPS" <<a href="mailto:whitepine.chapter@gmail.com">whitepine.chapter@gmail.com</a>><br>To: "White Pine Chapter" <<a href="mailto:whitepine.chapter@gmail.com">whitepine.chapter@gmail.com</a>><br>Date: 04/04/14 16:32<br>Subject: "Ventenata and Nesting Success" (Palouse Audubon Soc.) 4/16/14<br><br><div dir="ltr"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font><font size="1"><i>Forwarded by Sonja Lewis</i></font><br></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style='font-family: "ll Sans MT"; font-size: 12pt;'>P</span></b><b><span style='font-family: "ll Sans MT"; font-size: 12pt;'>alouse Audubon Society,</span></b> <b><span style='font-family: "ll Sans MT"; font-size: 12pt;'>ventenata and nesting success,</span></b> <b><span lang="X-NONE" style='font-family: "ll Sans MT"; font-size: 12pt;'>April</span></b> <b><span style='font-family: "ll Sans MT"; font-size: 12pt;'>16,</span></b> <b><span lang="X-NONE" style='font-family: "ll Sans MT"; font-size: 12pt;'>2014</span></b><b><span style='font-family: "ll Sans MT"; font-size: 12pt;'>, 7:30 pm</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style='font-family: "ntury Schoolbook"; font-size: 9.5pt;'>Andrew Mackey</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style='font-family: "ntury Schoolbook"; font-size: 9.5pt;'>, a graduate student in the</span> <span lang="X-NONE" style='font-family: "ntury Schoolbook"; font-size: 9.5pt;'>[UI]</span> <span lang="X-NONE" style='font-family: "ntury Schoolbook"; font-size: 9.5pt;'>College of Agricultural and Life Sciences</span> <span lang="X-NONE" style='font-family: "ntury Schoolbook"; font-size: 9.5pt;'>Plant, Soil & Entomological Sciences Department,</span> <span lang="X-NONE" style='font-family: "ntury Schoolbook"; font-size: 9.5pt;'>will present a program on the effects of ventenata</span> <span lang="X-NONE" style='font-family: "ntury Schoolbook"; font-size: 9.5pt;'>infestation on nesting success of</span> <span style='font-family: "ntury Schoolbook"; font-size: 9.5pt;'>t</span><span lang="X-NONE" style='font-family: "ntury Schoolbook"; font-size: 9.5pt;'>ree</span> <span style='font-family: "ntury Schoolbook"; font-size: 9.5pt;'>s</span><span lang="X-NONE" style='font-family: "ntury Schoolbook"; font-size: 9.5pt;'>wallows in</span> <span lang="X-NONE" style='font-family: "ntury Schoolbook"; font-size: 9.5pt;'>CRP. The program will be held on</span> <span lang="X-NONE" style='color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: "ntury Schoolbook"; font-size: 9.5pt;'>Wednesday, April</span> <span lang="X-NONE" style='color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: "ntury Schoolbook"; font-size: 9.5pt;'>16,</span> <span lang="X-NONE" style='font-family: "ntury Schoolbook"; font-size: 9.5pt;'>at</span> <span lang="X-NONE" style='color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: "ntury Schoolbook"; font-size: 9.5pt;'>7:30</span> <span lang="X-NONE" style='color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: "ntury Schoolbook"; font-size: 9.5pt;'>pm</span> <span lang="X-NONE" style='font-family: "ntury Schoolbook"; font-size: 9.5pt;'>in the Fiske Room of the 1912 Center,</span> <span lang="X-NONE" style='font-family: "ntury Schoolbook"; font-size: 9.5pt;'>Moscow.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style='font-family: "ntury Schoolbook"; font-size: 9.5pt;'>Ventenata is a non-native winter annual</span> <span lang="X-NONE" style='font-family: "ntury Schoolbook"; font-size: 9.5pt;'>grass that has invaded agricultural and rangeland</span> <span lang="X-NONE" style='font-family: "ntury Schoolbook"; font-size: 9.5pt;'>systems throughout the Pacific Northwest and</span> <span lang="X-NONE" style='font-family: "ntury Schoolbook"; font-size: 9.5pt;'>causes reductions in plant species diversity. However,</span> <span lang="X-NONE" style='font-family: "ntury Schoolbook"; font-size: 9.5pt;'>little is known about the effects on wildlife and</span> <span lang="X-NONE" style='font-family: "ntury Schoolbook"; font-size: 9.5pt;'>insect populations. This research suggests that ventenata</span> <span lang="X-NONE" style='font-family: "ntury Schoolbook"; font-size: 9.5pt;'>invasion is negatively impacting tree swallow</span> <span lang="X-NONE" style='font-family: "ntury Schoolbook"; font-size: 9.5pt;'>reproduction; however, further research is needed to</span> <span lang="X-NONE" style='font-family: "ntury Schoolbook"; font-size: 9.5pt;'>identify the mechanisms. This program is free and</span> <span lang="X-NONE" style='font-family: "ntury Schoolbook"; font-size: 9.5pt;'>open to the public and is sponsored by Palouse Audubon</span> <span lang="X-NONE" style='font-family: "ntury Schoolbook"; font-size: 9.5pt;'>Society.</span></p> </div> </div> </div></body>