National Invasive Species
Management Plan
The National Invasive Species Management
Plan is a product of 10 cabinet-level council
members who were directed to provide leadership
on invasive species issues by a February
1999 Executive Order. The plan outlines leadership
and coordination, prevention, early detection
and rapid response, control and management,
restoration, international cooperation, research,
information management, and education and
public awareness strategies to prevent the
adverse effects of invasive species.
CSREES takes a leadership role in the Early
Detection and Rapid Response, Communication
and Outreach, and Control and Management
Working Groups of the National Invasive Species
Management Plan, as follows:
Early Detection and Rapid Response Working
Group Communication and Outreach Working
Group
Tom Bewick, CSREES national program leader
for horticulture, co-chairs both of these
working groups.
Control and Management Working Group (Workshop
Planned for Fiscal Year 04)
Robert
Nowierski, CSREES national program
leader for bio-based pest management, co-chairs
the Control and Management Working Group.
A workshop to determine the status and
needs of control and management of invasive
species takes place in spring Fiscal Year
04.
These and other working groups will help
the National Invasive Species Council implement
the National Invasive Species Management
Plan.
The National
Invasive Species Council's Management Plan
website gives up-to-date information
on a variety of invasive species issues.
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