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U.S. Department of Interior

National Park Service

• Preserving Our Natural Heritage - A Strategic Plan for Managing Invasive Nonnative Plants on National Park System Lands

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

U.S. Geological Survey

• The Alien Plants Ranking System A computer-implemented decision-support system for land managers make difficult decisions concerning invasive nonnative plants.
• The Fort Collins Science Center (FORT) conducts research and develops technical applications to assist land managers and natural resource decision makers in managing biological resources, habitats, and ecosystems. Five Science Programs, including Invasive Species Science.
• The USGS Southwest Biological Science Center addresses critical research needs in the Southwestern U.S., including water use and the effects of livestock grazing, wildland fires, invasive species, environmental contaminants, declining populations of native species and urban development. Field stations: Canyonlands, Colorado Plateau, Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center, Sonoran Desert. SWEPIC, the Southwest Exotic Plant Information Clearinghouse is one of the research arms of SBCS.

U.S. Department of Agriculture

PLANTS Database - A single source of standardized plant information

APHIS-Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, protecting America's agricultural and natural resources

• Noxious Weeds-from USDA APHIS Pest Detection & Management Program

E-answers is a searchable Web site that offers more than 250,000 pages of university information and education. The practical, current, and unbiased information in this site represents the work of Extension Service and Agricultural Experiment Station professionals at more than 50 Land Grant universities throughout the United States.

IPM Centers. The Western IPM Center is one of four IPM centers funded by USDA/CSREES. The four centers operate independently to address the unique IPM needs within their region.

• The 2007 editions of PNW (Pacific NorthWest) Insect Handbook; PNW Weed Mgmt Handbook, and PNW Plant Disease Mgmt Handbook are online at: http://ipmnet.org/IPM_Handbooks.htm.

National Invasive Species Information Center (NISC): Gateway to invasive species information; covering Federal, State, local, and international sources.

National Plant Board The National Plant Board is an organization of the plant pest regulatory agencies of each of the states and Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.  Includes contact information for Plant Regulatory Officials for each state and commonwealth.

USDA Forest Service -
Forest Service noxious weed strategies, regulations, and policies.

• TreeSearch-U.S. Forest Service research publications
• Evaluating Risk to Native Plant Communities from Selected Exotic Plant Species A program to help land managers in Montana and Northern Idaho identify the native plant communities most threatened by invasive plants; prioritize and strategize weed management efforts.
• USFS Invasive Plant Regional Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for Region 6 (Washington and Oregon). Covers invasive plants, economic costs and projections of different control methods, and potential costs of delaying management efforts.
• Forest Service website for invasives. Portal to invasive species program information at the national, regional, forest and district levels. Includes Weed Manager's Guide to Remote Sensing and GIS.
  
• Rocky Mountain Research Station Invasive Species Working Group Research Summary and Expertise Directory (December 2009).
  

U.S. Dept. of Transportation

Beware of Invasive Species-adapted from several DOT sources, primarily Roadside Use of Native Plants.

Eco-logical: An Ecosystem Approach to Developing Infrastructure Projects Considering terrestrial and aquatic habitats, and the restoration and recovery of declining ecosystems and the species that depend on them, while developing facilities, services, forest products, and recreation opportunities.

Greener Roadsides quarterly newsletter. Fall 2001 issue devoted to invasive species.

Roadside Use of Native Plants-a reference handbook for those who restore, design, or manage native plants, with information aimed at preserving the native remnants that still exist and restoring natural heritage where necessary. Organized by state. Parts I and III now available online.

Roadside vegetation management

• Roadside Weed Management (FHA, EPA, NRCS)-sequel reference to 1999 Roadside Use of Native Plants. Features a state-by-state analysis of noxious weed law for all land managers. Copies may be ordered directly from FHWA warehouse by faxing request for Pub. No. FHWA-HEP-07-017 to: (301) 386-5394, attention Johnny Booze. Books shipped directly to address supplied.

Multi-Agency Organizations

The National Invasive Species Council is an interdepartmental council organized to ensure complementary, cost-efficient and effective Federal activities regarding invasive species, in partnership with the Invasive Species Advisory Committee. ISAC has developed a white paper that defines "invasive species" to provide a non-regulatory policy interpretation by identifying what is/is not meant by the term.

The Federal Interdepartmental Committee for the Management of Noxious and Exotic Weeds, FICMNEW, is a partnership of 17 federal natural resource management agencies organized to address research and management of noxious, exotic, invasive and poisonous weeds on Native American and Federal natural resource lands.