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” (Yonkers 5), modified crops accelerated the evolution in weeds at an incredible rate making them develop resistance faster. A common weed called Palmer that grows near soybeans evolved to be resistance to glyphosate an active ingredient in many weed killers such as Roundup. Do to how resistance this strain is it has spread to more than seventy-six countries and that is just the palmer weed; twenty-four other glyphosate resistant weeds have appeared in eight-teen different countries as well. Some

Introduction Asked to research how Round-up PowerMax affects date palm trees, these are my findings. I found that Round-up’s active ingredient is glyphosate. This led me to search various databases with scientific studies on glyphosate’s effects on date palm trees. Currently there is one similar study on glyphosates effects on palm trees. Although this study at a glance seems thorough, it does not specifically test the chemical’s effects on date palm trees. Consequently, there are currently no studies

mulching and composting the weeds. Hopefully, the gardener will have time to weed before the weeds develop seeds. If this should not be the case, compost or dispose of the resultant greenery away from the garden to prevent a bumper crop of weeds next year. Cover fallow areas of the garden or future garden patches with garden cloth or black plastic; lay down a layer of mulch, and cover the mulch with plastic. Weight it down well. The mulch and plastic will kill the weeds in the future gardening area;

I thought that service learning would be a great way to connect with the community while learning more about the environment. In ENVIR 239, I knew that I was going to be focusing on minimizing my footprint and aside from class assignments, I wanted to know what other hands-on activities I could do. Through the service learning, I actually feel like Beaven, “balance[ing] what negative impact [I] couldn’t eliminate with some sort of positive impact” (Beavan, 15). As Beaven would call it, this “environmental

Kho, Park What is an invasive species? Invasive species are plants, animal, fungi and bacteria that are non native to the ecosystem around it. There are three different category of invasive species. The three are category are invasive animal species, invasive fungus species, and last invasive plant species. You can classify invasive plant by seeing if it is from the region or area.Well, an invasive plant has the ability to thrive and spread aggressively outside its natural range. This means that

large cargo ships fill tanks with water to keep its balance. As they load up with more cargo, the water is emptied out and the animals that were in the water are now in a new location, potentially harming their new environment. On land, noxious weeds can be spread by attaching to people's’ clothing, cars, and basically anything. By brushing off your clothes before you go to a new place, the chance of an invasive species potentially coming with you goes down tremendously. In lakes, if people thoroughly

states as an ornamental, for erosion control, a source of starch, cloth, paper products, and as a fodder for livestock in the first half of the 1900s (Li, Dong, Albright, & Guo, 2011). As time progressed, the once desired plant evolved to a noxious weed by the 1950s. The invasive nature that Kudzu displays beyond the United States has earned a place in the listing of one of the 100 world’s worst alien species (Li, Dong, Albright, & Guo,

After a fun and insightful experience from the previous volunteer work, I decided to look for another volunteer opportunity to help the restoration of our ecology. Since I enjoy visiting parks around Seattle area during my leisure time, I participated another volunteer work available at Crestwoods Park in Kirkland. Green Kirkland Partnership and UW Restoration Ecology Network hosted this volunteer work on Martin Luther King’s day, January 20, 2014. In this volunteer work, volunteers were to remove

The kudzu vine comes from a specific subfamily of perennial vines that is mainly found in tropical regions of Southeast Asia, particularly in Japan and China. 1 This particular species would be in the same species as the legume family, with pods similar to a pea plant with tiny hairs surrounding the pods. The vine is characterized by having large oval leaves in either two or three per stem. Because of the nature of vine plants, the Kudzu plant has the unique ability to use its stems to climb vertical

Kidney’s Miranda Eisenschmidt MONSANTO’S Monsanto’s is an agricultural biotechnology corporation. They are the producers of Roundup ready seeds, which are seeds that are not affected or killed by weed killer. Not only do they produce the seeds but they produce the herbicide Roundup as well that kills unwanted weeds and grass. These things seem like something every gardener would want. What could be better? Well Roundup is not all is thought to be. The herbicide Roundup has been linked to damaging liver