A volunteer for the Student Conservation Association delves deep into his work on invasive English Ivy removal (another dominant invasive species next to the blackberry).
Figure Credit: https://www.thesca.org/connect/blog/photos-earth-day-seattle-2014 

What Parts of This Issue Needs More Attention?

One cannot resolve a problem without the help and active involvement from our community. 


We must work to engage our members of the community and to help them see this issue's relevance to us:

• Citizen science work to train and involve any interested person to help sample and collect data is a great way to involve our community. Julia Parrish, a researcher involved in COASST, is a University of Washington staff member that highly encourages this method. 
  

• As stated previously, many organizations such as SCA have a mission to educate our youth in such issues in an a fun and interactive way. 
  

We must focus on researching the most effective way of removal:

• Focus on the root ball and its removal
  

             - Find different methods of efficiently removing the                  rootball
             - Fraser, Andrew H, and Kern Ewing have been                      focusing their research in this

• Focus on collecting data to find blackberry weaknesses
  

             - More research on what kind of environment and                     soil is not ideal for the Himalayan blackberry 
             - Other methods of limiting its growth
             -  Hays, David L, and Kern Ewing are focusing their                 research on how flooding can affect blackberry                     mortality.