Name users and their associated uses of water resources in VA ✔✔1. Public utilities: provide
drinking water
2. Campgrounds, parks, etc:
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3. Owners of waterfront property manage their water: protect their investment
4. Industry depends on cooling and fire ponds for safety
5. Irrigation districts provide water for crops and livestock
6. Real estate developers, streams, and lakes provide aesthetic appeal
7 Fish farmers use aquatic systems for the commercial production of fish
What necessary and beneficial roles do aquatic plants play in their native systems? ✔✔Serve as
food, habitat, and shelter for other aquatic organisms. Stabilize the substrate, filter storm and
runoff water
When do aquatic plants become a problem? ✔✔In large numbers, aquatic plants can hamper
fishing, swimming, and boating. Plant masses can also adversely affect the chemistry of
underlying waters, degrading fisheries and killing food supplies for fishName the six weed control option that this manual will discuss ✔✔Prevention and cultural,
manual, biological, mechanical, and chemical control
Which of the six control methods should often be your first line of attack ✔✔Prevention
Name several things you must consider when making weed management decisions ✔✔1. Type
of plant
2. The use of the water
3. Physical constraints
4. Water quality
5. The impact your control tactic will have on fish and wildlife
List four aquatic pests not addressed in this manual: Explain why they are not covered: ✔✔1.
Mollusks: Catagory 5B Marine antifoulant paints
2. Mosquitos and black flies: Catagory 8 public health and pest control
3. Nusiance reptiles, amphibians, and leeches: no chemicals currently used
4. Nuisance mammals and birds: Catagory 7D Vertebrate pest controlWhy is it important that aquatic weed managers learn good communication skills ✔✔Weed
managers are often the most visible members of an aquatic resources team. They are often seen
and remembered by the public. Weed managers may need to respond to an on-the-scene reporter
or inform residents about what technique or chemical is being applied and why. Well prepared
weed managers are critical in a public relations program.
Explain why notifying landowners before implementing a control program is especially
important ✔✔Early notification enables you to meet and discuss the control program with
nearby landowners before application begins. Details about how, where, and when you will be
working can be discussed. Areas of special concern can be addressed in advance.
When approached by a landowner concerned about the weed control method you are performing,
how should you proceed? ✔✔Be polite and businesslike regardless of what they say or do.
Answer questions honestly.
Aquaculture- ✔✔The cultivation of fish, plants, and other aquatic products for sale
Aquatic pest- ✔✔A plant, animal, or insect that interferes with the functions and use of an
aquatic systemAquatic plant- ✔✔a plant that grows in water or in areas closely associated with water
Aquatic Resource- ✔✔A river, stream, lake, pond, or other body of water. Provides drinking
water, recreation areas, habitat for wildlife, and other benfits for people and the env.
Integrated pest management- ✔✔A system that uses all appropriate strategies to reduce pest
populations. By using this you may reduce the need for pesticides.
Nutrient Management- ✔✔Actions that reduce the amount of nutrients that flow into a body of
water. Excess nutrients cause weeds to flourish. By reducing nutrient runoff, __________
__________ may prevent a weed problem before it starts
Pest- ✔✔any living thing that is undesirable to people or the env. An organism may be a pest in
one place, but not in another.
Pest Management Guides- ✔✔A series of publications that list current reccomendations for
many types of pest control. The VCE publishes the PMGs and updates them each year.Pesticides- ✔✔Any substance used to control a pest. ________ may also reduce the unwanted or
harmful effects of a pest.
Weed- ✔✔A plant growing where it is not desired. Plants are ______ when they interfere with
human activities, cause safety hazards, or contaminate water resources.
Algae- ✔✔Primitive plants closely related to fungi. Algae lack true supporting or conducting
tissues. They do not produce true roots, leaves, or flowers
Algal Bloom- ✔✔An abundant and rapid growth of algae
Branchlet- ✔✔A small, branch like [Show Less]