invasive/ non-native plant committees - Aquatic Plant Management in Florida Waters

NON-NATIVE PLANT and INVASIVE PLANT COMMITTEES

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Other non-native plant and invasive plant links |

Advisory Committee


Ardisia crenata ardisia	Arundo donax giant reed	Pueraria montana kudzu	Hydrilla verticillata hydrilla	Melia azedarach Chinaberry	Neyraudia reynaudiana silk reed

This web page was created to provide you with information about different non-native plant and invasive plant committees at the regional and national levels.

The National Management Plan

Invasivespecies.gov is the gateway to Federal efforts concerning invasive species. It also has the final version of the National Invasive Species Management Plan, January 18, 2001

http://www.invasivespecies.gov/
President Clinton's Executive Order 13112, 3 February 1999

Safeguarding American Plant Resources: Link to USDA/APHIS, "A Stakeholder Review of the APHIS-PPQ Safeguarding System"

IFAS Invasive Plants Working Group

Since 1995 IFAS at the University of Florida has sponsored an Invasive Plants Working Group. This group formed to address conflicts among faculty perspectives related to non-native plants and invasive plants in Florida. Specifically their objective is to organize an in-service summit in which working group members evaluate the National Management Plan and the Florida Pest Exclusion Advisory Committe Report and ultimately develop an IFAS-Extension plan for invasive species.

Invasive Plant Working Group Members

Bill Haller, Chair	Agronomy, Acting Director, UF/IFAS Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants	wth@ifas.ufl.edu
Jim Cuda	IFAS Entomology and Nemotology, and Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants	jcuda@ifas.ufl.edu
Mary Duryea	Associate Dean, IFAS Research	mlduryea@ufl.edu
Joan Dusky	Associate Dean, IFAS Extension	jadu@ifas.ufl.edu
Alison Fox	Agronomy and Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants	amfox@ifas.ufl.edu
Doria Gordon	Botany Department and The Nature Conservancy	dgordon@botany.ufl.edu
Gary Knox	Environmental Horticulture	gwknox@ifas.ufl.edu
Ken Langeland	Agronomy and Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants	kal@ifas.ufl.edu
Erick Smith	UF Arborist	edsmith@ufl.edu
George Tanner	Wildlife Ecology and Conservation	TannerG@wec.ufl.edu
Sandy Wilson	Environmental Horticulture	sbwilson@ifas.ufl.edu

Many of the working group members co-authored a system to assess the status of non-native plants in Florida. Go to the assessment web site:

IFAS Assessment of the Status of Non-Native Plants in Florida's Natural Areas

Other helpful non-native plant and invasive plant links

FLEPPC - Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council
Weeds Gone Wild: Alien Plant Invaders of Natural Areas
FICMNEW -Federal Interagency Committee...

This page was authored by Alison Moss.
Data is from the APIRS database.
Photography was by Vic Ramey and Ann Murray.
Layout was by Alison Moss.

Vic Ramey is the editor.

DEP review is by Jeff Schardt and Judy Ludlow.

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This project is a collaboration of
the Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants, University of Florida,
and the Bureau of Invasive Plant Management, Florida Department of Environmental Protection