Successful Elements of a grassroots water chestnut control program

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Successful Elements of a grassroots water
chestnut control program

• Or, one size does not fit all!!

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What is the Adopt-A-Shoreline Program?

• Volunteer Monitoring
• Education and Outreach
• Control Days
• Workshops and presentations
• Unusual Publications
• Media
• Partnerships!!!

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Volunteers are the heart of the program
Learn
Act
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Want to Adopt Some Shoreline?

• Sixty volunteers adopted2/3 Oneida, all
  Onondaga, some of Skaneateles and the Three
  Rivers
• Eastern most point of infestation on Oneida
  eliminated
• Western edge on Oneida significantly reduced

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Remember to Recognize Volunteers
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What else do volunteers want?

• Thank you!
• Informative Newsletters
• Special assignments
• Refreshments

Chestnuts floating on an open pond (Not!)
Thanks so much for your help! From the Staff
at Cornell Cooperative Extension Adopt-A-Shoreline
Program
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Outreach to the Public is Important
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Have Fun with Control
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With Friends or Family
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Work with the Media

• Develop relationships
• What is the angle?
• Try again
• And again

Everyone likes a story about kids who volunteer!
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Try New Ways of Doing Things

• Coming in 2007
• A water chestnut scavenger hunt, a water chestnut
  relay race, a water chestnut mascot
• New educational partners

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Partners and Plans
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Thanks to Funders Past Present

• US Fish and Wildlife Foundation
• US EPA
• Oneida Lake Association
• Great Lakes National Program Office
• CNY Regional Planning Development Board
• Onondaga County DOH
• Finger-Lakes Lake Ontario Water Protection
  Alliance
• City of Syracuse
• Onondaga Lake Partnership

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Thank you!
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