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Scientist Names Top Five Invasive Plants Threatening Southern Forests in 2009: New Maps Show Spread of Nonnative Plants across Southeast (Jan 12, 2009)
USDA. Forest Service. Southern Research Station.
U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station Ecologist Jim Miller, Ph.D., one of the foremost authorities on nonnative plants in the South, identified the invasive plant species he believes pose the biggest threats to southern forest ecosystems in 2009.

CSREES, EPA and IPM Centers Release IPM in Schools Strategic Plan (Jan 7, 2009)
USDA's Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES), in partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Regional Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Centers and the IPM Institute released a strategic plan to implement IPM practices in schools. The plan was created to reduce pest and pesticide-related hazards to children in the U.S. public schools by 2015.

School IPM 2015: A Strategic Plan for Integrated Pest Management in Schools in the United States (Dec 3, 2008; PDF | 2.3 MB)
National Information System for the Regional IPM Centers.

Predicting Future Introductions of Nonindigenous Species to the Great Lakes (Final Report, 2008)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. EPA/600/R-08/066F.
This report predicts the spread of aquatic nonindigenous species into the Great Lakes to help resource managers focus monitoring activities on particular species at the most vulnerable U.S. Great Lakes ports. The report also demonstrates the use of a habitat suitability model and ballast water discharge data to predict invasion potential.

Grazing Animals Help Spread Plant Disease
(Dec 29, 2008)
Oregon State University.
Researchers have discovered that grazing animals including deer and rabbits are actually helping to spread plant disease – quadrupling its prevalence in some cases – and encouraging an invasion of annual grasses that threatens more than 20 million acres of native grasslands in California.

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Grant and Partnership Programs that Can Address Invasive Species Research, Technical Assistance, Prevention and Control (Jan 2009; PDF | 133 KB)
United States Department of Agriculture.

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