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TEAM LEAFY SPURGE DOCUMENTARY
NOW AVAILABLE ON ARS WEBSITE
 With the aid of ARS Information Staff in Beltsville, MD,
the award-winning TEAM Leafy Spurge documentary "Purging Spurge:
Corralling an Ecological Bandit" that previously aired on PBS, is
now available on the national
ARS website
at
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/video/vnr/spurge.htm. TEAM Leafy
Spurge representatives, working with IS Public Affairs Specialist Jim DeQuattro
in Beltsville, provided the footage for
inclusion in ARS’ national video archive.
"Purging Spurge" was produced in 2002 by the
TEAM Leafy Spurge program in partnership with North Dakota’s Prairie
Public Broadcasting and was subsequently named a 2003 Finalist in the
documentary category of the 24th Annual Telly Awards. The documentary,
which focuses on grassland health and the impact of invasive weeds like
leafy spurge, was developed to help increase public awareness of noxious
weeds and to bring all segments of society on board to help control
them. A VHS videotape of the documentary is available free from
TEAM Leafy Spurge by
contacting the USDA-ARS Northern Plains
Agricultural Research Laboratory at P.O. Box 463, Sidney, MT 59270;
or by phone at 406-433-2020; by fax at 406-433-5038; or by e-mail at
teamls[at]sidney.ars.usda.gov.
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ARS MORMON CRICKET RESEARCH FEATURED IN WEB VIDEO
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In cooperation with the
National Geographic
Channel, NPARL has posted a video clip from
the channel's daily news program featuring ARS Research Ecologist
Greg Sword and his Mormon cricket
tracking research team on its website at:
http://www.sidney.ars.usda.gov.
The video, which originally aired July 23 on
National Geographic
Today, discusses the pest tracking project conducted in Colorado
this past summer by Sword and his
collaborators, Dr. Pat Lorch of the University of North Carolina, and
Dr. Darryl Gwynne of the University of Toronto at Mississauga. Also
participating was NPARL Biological Science Technician
Laura Senior. The segment
includes footage of researchers "tagging" individual insects with tiny
radio transmitters, relocating them, and recording data on their
movements using GPS. A flightless insect, the Mormon cricket is known to
be capable of traveling up to a mile a day, although a particularly
hardy individual tracked by the team traveled significantly further
across rugged mountainous terrain. The researchers studied three
different bands of Mormon crickets, with millions of insects in each
band, as they moved across northwestern Colorado near Dinosaur National
Monument. Researchers hope to ultimately use the information collected
to develop mathematical models for predicting band movement so that
producers and other affected parties can target control methods where
they're most needed and most effective.
Additional article featured in ARS Magazine:
Tiny
Transmitters Gauge Cricket Movements
The video is provided in .wmv (Windows
Media Player) format and can be viewed on the internet in your browser
by simply choosing "Click
here to view this movie (6.1MB)", but to download this movie onto
your computer choose from one of the three movie file sizes under the
heading: "Download this movie."
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