The informational brochure, "Paradise Lost? The Coastal Prairie of Louisiana and Texas," produced by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in partnership with the USGS and the Cajun Prairie Habitat Preservation Society, received second place in the Shoestring Budget Category of the 2001 National Association of Government Communicators' Blue Pencil Award . . .
A new research program being developed at the USGS National Wetlands Research Center is focusing on the invasive potential and ecological risks associated with exotic grasses . . .