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Invasive Alien Plant Program (IAPP) Application Training

Workshops and Regional Plant Identification sessions

In the Fall of 2007 MFR, in partnership with the Invasive Plant Council of BC (IPC) and Regional Weed Committees, developed and presented a series of hands-on workshops in numerous locations around the province.
These free, one-day workshops were designed to provide participants with key identifying characteristics of local invasive plant species, as well as an overview of the IAPP application, including background information on its development and future.

Module 2 field exercise in Alexis Creek The hands-on component of the session delivered practical experience in the use of the application, from gathering data in the field to entering this data, running reports and displaying information, both in the Data Entry and the Map Display modules.

IAPP Application Training in your Area

Training was delivered from Fort Nelson to Victoria, Prince George to Cranbrook, and dozens of locations in between. IAPP training will continue through 2008, and participants will become familiar with the latest enhancement version 1.6 once it has been released in the spring of 2008.

If you wish to organize or attend an IAPP training session, contact the IPC, your local Weed Committee (see links below), or email the MFR trainer directly to enquire about available times in your area.

The IAPP Training schedule for 2008

Module 2 IAPP Workshop schedule for 2008
April 3, 2008	Burns Lake	(contractor training exclusively)
May 13/14, 2008	Queen Charlotte City	MFR District office
June 2, 2008	Chilliwack	FVRD building, 45950 Cheam Ave
June 11, 2008	Fort Nelson	MFR District office, Alaska Hwy
June 12, 2008	Fort Nelson	MFR District office, Alaska Hwy
June 13, 2008	Dawson Creek	PRRD building, 1981 Alaska Ave
July 17, 2008	Tumbler Ridge
July 22, 2008	Cranbrook	College of the Rockies, Lab room 181

If your office, company, or organization would like to put on an IAPP workshop after August 20, 2008 you may contact the IPC, or your regional Weed Committee.

The IAPP Training Materials

Marsh Plume Thistle; picture by Percy Folkard

The complete training manual for IAPP version 1.5, as used in the Module 2 hands-on training sessions, can be downloaded here: View Manual
[pdf, 3.6 Mb, updated November 10, 2007].
The Plant Identification presentations, delivered by the MFR Invasive Plant Specialist for each of 4 zones in BC, are listed below and can be viewed in Flash format. If you don't have the Flash player installed on your computer, it may be downloaded free of charge at this Flash Player download site.
Click on the name of each zone to view its plant identification presentation in a new browser window:

Links to Regional Weed Committees:

Boundary Weed Management Committee - BWMC
Cariboo Chilcotin Coast Invasive Plant Committee - CCCIPC
Central Kootenay Invasive Plant Committee - CKIPC
Coastal Invasive Plant Committee - CIPC
East Kootenay Invasive Plant Committee - EKIPC
Greater Vancouver Invasive Plant Council - GVIPC
North-East Invasive Plant Committee - NEIPC
North-West Invasive Plant Council - NWIPC
Southern Interior Weed Management Committee - SIWMC
South Okanagan Similkameen Invasive Plant Society - SOSIPS