CONSERVATION COMMISSION
Dan Gaherty, Chair * Laurie DiCesare, Clerk
* William Pikul, Vice Chair* Bonnie Pease, Member *Pamela Sandoval, Member
Kris Dulmer, Tree Warden/CC Coordinator * Jenna Tucker Eugair, Director of Recreation
Meeting Type: Regular Meeting
Date: Tuesday, December 13, 2022
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Place: Community Room, 43 Bombardier Road
Contact: (802) 893-6655
Website: www.miltonvt.gov
AGENDA
1) Agenda Review
2) Public Forum
The public may attend and be heard in accordance with Vermont's Open Meeting Law (1VSA312).
3) Business
a) Town Forest ADA trail project
i) Contractor RFP process – site evaluation
ii) DEC permit – site evaluation by Wetlands Ecologist
iii) ACOE permit renewal
b) 2023 VT Urban and Community Forestry Grant
c) VT Invasive Species Day request
d) Trail maintenance projects (Town Forest)
e) Staff Update (Jenna Eugair, Kris Dulmer)
f) Nature Notes
g) Review/approve October 25 meeting notes
4) Adjournment
Cymone Haiju, AICP, Planning Director
Posted to the Town website, Front Porch Forum and in the Municipal Building Lobby, e-mailed to the Milton Independent and filed with the Town Clerk.
Template for letter of support for declaration of a VT Invasive Species Day
1. WHY does your organization support a proposed declaration by the Vermont legislature for a VT Invasive Species Day? (to be held every third Saturday in May - which is the second weekend after Green Up Day). Example: (from Jericho Center Preservation Association): Educate upon and to mitigate the presence of invasive species, both existing, nativized and future threats.
2. How might the legislature and the State of Vermont help better manage invasive species in Vermont with general funding or other assets? Example: (from Jericho Center Preservation Association): Additional resources for a curated program would track and map locations of concern and prioritize their impacts.
3. What locations are key areas of concern for your organization and why? For example State parks, WMA's, Nature Conservancy trails, local Land Trust lands, specific waterways or watersheds. Be as specific or general as you wish.
4. What does your organization most need to be more effective in your goals of Invasive Species management?
5. How can we increase the educational as well as motivational outreach to the public on a local level? On a regional level? On a state-wide basis? Example: (from Jericho Center Preservation Association): State could better communicate the existence of and threats caused by invasive species and that these efforts must be filtered to the correct audiences.
6. What partnerships might you suggest that could magnify the impact of Invasive Species management at a particular location?
7. How can we make it easier for landowners to recognize and manage invasive species on their property beyond the online and other resources available today?
8. What recent invasive management actions has your organization accomplished? (Number of volunteers, the invasive species you addressed, the location, the size of the area worked on, and other pertinent information.) Would you be ok with me publishing that information on my community blog (Jerichovermont.blogspot.com)? Please share your success stories.
9. What ideas do you have that might encourage more folks to volunteer with invasive management efforts? For example, I offer to buy creemees at our local country store to volunteers after we finish a few hours of cutting invasive honeysuckle. I am also considering asking for bids (so much ($) an hour) to have me come to folks' property to cut honeysuckle, with proceeds going to our local community center.
10. How can folks volunteer with your organization to remove, cut, or otherwise manage invasive species? What is your website address? *Who is the invasive species coordinator for your organization and what is their email address?
Responses are welcome now through mid-term of the legislative 2023 session.
*Please include contact info so we can follow up with you, and possibly ask a representative from your organization to testify during the VT Legislative session to broaden support for this Vermont Invasive Species Day.
Thank You
Bernie Paquette Jericho, Vermont
bernie.paquette@yahoo.com
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