Invasive Species Management Program Development
We ensure the environment aligns with your strategic goals, vision, and values.
Process Overview
Consultation & Strategy
Seed2Leaf offers a comprehensive consultation process that begins with an in-depth assessment of the client’s land management needs and goals. Their experts develop tailored strategies that align with environmental considerations, ensuring effective and sustainable solutions for invasive species control.
Site Analysis and Assessment
Seed2Leaf’s site analysis and assessment process involves a detailed examination of the land to identify existing vegetation, soil conditions, and potential ecological challenges. Their team of specialists uses this data to create customized management plans that address invasive species and support long-term ecosystem balance.
Execution and Monitoring
Seed2Leaf’s ensures that management plans are implemented effectively and adjusted as needed. Their team oversees the application of control measures and conducts regular site evaluations to track progress and efficacy. This ongoing monitoring allows for timely modifications to strategies, promoting successful, sustainable outcomes.
Invasive Species
Invasive species are plants and wildlife not native to our territory. They thrive under ideal growing conditions and a lack of their native competition and control mechanisms. These species create a risk to the landscape we call home and choke out our native desirable species.
Seed 2 Leaf primarily focuses on terrestrial habitats and invasive vegetation.
Species Examples
Common Tansy
A perennial, herbaceous flowering plant brought to North America in the 1600s for medicinal purposes. It is native to Europe and Asia. It spreads via roots and seeds that can remain viable for up to 25 years.
Why is it an issue
Eating common tansy can be toxic to humans and livestock. However, most livestock avoid the plant which allows it to flourish and degrade pastures. It impedes reforestation and outcompetes native plants putting ephemeral wetlands, bogs, and marshes at risk. These wetlands have been recognized as a vanishing habitat critical to amphibious animals as well as smaller mammals such as muskrats and beavers.
Why Was it Brought to North America
Tansy doesn’t have a role in modern herbal medicine and many of its documented uses have failed to show efficacy. It has been found in extract oils and sold as a parasitic worm medicine and as a herbal form of inducing an abortion.
Scentless Chamomile
Found in fields, fallow lands, lawns, roadsides, yards, and gardens. Scentless chamomile can produce from 300,000 to 500,000 seeds per plant or 1,000,000 seeds per square meter of densely infested area. Seeds can be viable for up to 15 years but most germinate within 3 to 4.
Why is it an Issue
An aggressive species that crowds out other plants and takes over pastures, grasslands, agricultural lands, especially in riparian areas and changing the ecosystem for species living in the area. This species is difficult to control and spreads quickly.
Why Was it Brought to North America
It was brought to North America from Europe and western Asia as an ornamental plant in 1872, quickly becoming a noxious, invasive species.
Daryl Wright (EP)
President Seed2Leaf
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Help build environmental stewardship
Seed 2 leaf environmental is focused on building environmental stewardship by engaging land users on the importance of invasive species management (ISM). We engage communities by sharing aknowledge, developing management plans, and linking youth employment opportunities in collaboration with industry. Working with industry we strive to develop indigenous inclusion and establishing a link between youth employment and community action.
What we know to work well.
Seed 2 Leaf Environmental is one of the leading experts in Invasive Species Management. We build on a base of knowledge and professionalism within our Indigenous led network.
Clients can rely on our network to deliver BBB accredited and COR certified service. Led by industry leading expertise with programs designed by our Environmental Professional (EP) registered with ECO Canada.
Mr. Wright’s Masters work and subsequent business endeavors have included projects with national parks, industry and First Nations communities in Saskatchewan. Daryl has presented to environmental forums at the FSIN and Treaty Land Entitlement (TLE) presentations on the importance of establishing a guardianship role on invasive species through the use of an Indigenous youth network.
~ Chief Melissa Tavita
Muscowpetung Saulteaux Nation
