What is the best way to eliminate poison ivy?

What poison ivy looks like:
Each leaf has 3 little leaflets. It tends to grow off-white berries on the leaves in the early fall, and grows yellow-green flowers in the spring. 

Treating poison ivy:
If you have a rash from poison ivy, it is recommended to rinse your skin off with lukewarm water immediately after you notice the rash. 
Make sure to wash your clothing since the oil from the plant can stick to your clothing.
Do not scratch at the rash, as scratching will cause an infection.
If blisters appear on your skin, do not mess with them as it can prevent infection.

How to kill poison ivy:
If you find the plant, do not pull or burn it. Even if you pull it, it will still grow out of the ground since you did not eliminate the roots of it. Burning it can release urushiol into the air which can be harmful.
It is recommended to use a specialized weed killing spray. Always look at the ingredients in the spray and look for: Triclopyr, which fights through the surface of the plant, and also glyphosate, that helps kill the roots of the plant.
Once you use a spray, it will take 1-2 weeks for it to die. It will eventually turn yellowish-brownish.

Important:
 Poison ivy contains urushiol which can cause allergic reaction.
Burning poison ivy releases urushiol into the air which can also cause allergic reaction and can be harmful. 

Answer: abeexplanation:

1. the question asks the most appropriate, which seems to rule out "all of the above." your choice appears to be the correct one.

2. the protocol described is good for identifying correlation, but not cause and effect. for cause/effect, you need to devise a protocol that will assign the treatment (or not) to groups that have essentially the same "demographics" with respect to all the other variables. your choice regarding control group seems appropriate. random assignment of treatment (choice d) may be appropriate also. (i think you can argue that b and d are just different descriptions of the same method.)

3. d will randomize the birds, but may not guarantee there are 10 in each group. e will do both, so seems the better choice.

comment on question 2

based on the problem statement, it seems clear that confident, attentive drivers are more likely to use daytime running lights. so, the protocol might need to be devised in such a way that the lights would be turned on or off without the driver's knowledge. (an attentive driver will figure it out.) assigning a confident, attentive driver to a group required to drive without running lights might mess with his/her confidence and attentiveness. you don't want your experiment to do that. (nor do you want the experiment to subject a driver to greater risk of accident as a consequence of driving without running lights.) experiments involving human safety are always problematic.

Abbreviated as mg-25.