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October 21, 2009

Early Detection of Invasive Plant Species in the San Francisco Bay Area Network: A Volunteer-Based Approach (2009; PDF 5.3 MB)
DOI. National Park Service.
Report NPS/SFAN/NRR-2009/136.

* See our Manager’s Tool Kit section for more resources.

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October 01, 2009

Items of Interest in Seed (Oct 2009)
USDA. Agricultural Marketing Service.
Publications for seed control officials and seed companies.

* See our Resource Library - Newsletters section for more resources.

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August 27, 2009

Native Plants for Your Backyard (PDF | 97 KB)
Southeast Exotic Pest Plant Council.
Joint Service publication may be useful to those involved with outreach/education concerning invasive plants, those representing the nursery industry, and just for general information. This two page fact sheet lists shrubs, trees, vines, wildflowers, and grasses appealing to wildlife.

* See our General Publications and Reports section for more resources.

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August 04, 2009

Species Profile -- Fig Buttercup
USDA. NAL. National Invasive Species Information Center.
Fig buttercup is low-growning perennial herb. It out-competes native plants through it's extremely early seasonal growth and forms extensive carpets in natural areas, crowding out native plants. Fig buttercup is aggressive and spreads rapidly once established.

* See our Plants section for more species profiles.

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July 02, 2009

Environmental Assessment – Eurasian Watermilfoil / Curlyleaf Pondweed Research Project: Sanders County (May 2009; PDF | 534 KB)
Montana Department of Agriculture.
Currently, the only known infestation of eurasian watermilfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum) in Montana is in Noxon Rapids and Cabinet Gorge Reservoirs where the plant was first discovered in 2007. Spread of this plant has the potential to impact aquatic environments and impair recreational resources.

* See our Plants - Decision Support Tools section for more species profiles.

Added to Plants / Management / Decision Support Tools at 07:32 AM

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June 30, 2009

Biology and Control of Japanese Climbing Fern (Lygodium japonicum) (May 2009)
University of Florida. Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Extension.

* See our Plants - Management Plans page for more resources.

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June 25, 2009

Species Profile -- Japanese Spiraea
USDA. NAL. National Invasive Species Information Center.
Japanese spiraea is a perennial, deciduous shrub that can rapidly take over disturbed areas. Growing populations creep into meadows, forest openings, and other sites. Once established, spiraea grows rapidly and forms dense stands that outcompete much of the existing native herbs and shrubs. Seeds of Japanese spiraea last for many years in the soil, making its control and the restoration of native vegetation especially difficult. A single plant produces hundreds of small seeds that are naturally dispersed by water and deposited along stream banks.

* See our Plants section for more species profiles.

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June 24, 2009

Species Profile -- Brazilian Peppertree
USDA. NAL. National Invasive Species Information Center.
Brazilian peppertree is a broadleaved, evergreen shrub or small tree that invades natural and disturbed areas in Hawaii, Florida, Texas and California. Brazilian peppertree invades a variety of habitats including old fields, forests, hammocks, ditches, and wetlands. It forms dense thickets that displace native vegetation.

* See our Plants section for more species profiles.

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June 16, 2009

Species Profile -- Japanese Stiltgrass
USDA. NAL. National Invasive Species Information Center.
Japanese stiltgrass is a highly agreessive annual grass capable of colonizing a wide variety of habitats. It threatens native plants and natural habitats in open to shady, and moist to dry locations. Stilt grass spreads to form extensive patches, displacing native species that are not able to compete with it.

* See our Plants section for more species profiles.

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June 05, 2009

Species Profile -- Japanese Climbing Fern
USDA. NAL. National Invasive Species Information Center.
Japanese climbing fern is an invasive exotic vine, native to eastern Asia. Japanese climbing fern can overtop forest trees, thus shading-out and killing them. It is often found as a tangled mass over shrubs and fencelines, smothering ground cover and tree seedlings.

* See our Plants section for more species profiles.

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May 26, 2009

Species Profile -- Air Potato

Added to Plants / Species Profiles at 11:57 AM



May 14, 2009

Cooperative Weed Management Areas

Added to Plants / Management / Early Detection and Rapid Response at 03:08 PM

National Network of Invasive Plant Centers (NNIPC)

Added to Plants / Management / Control Mechanisms and News and Events / In the News at 02:50 PM



May 05, 2009

Convention on Biological Diversity Resources

Added to Plants / Publications / General Publications and Reports at 09:06 AM



April 09, 2009

Species Profile -- Witchweed

Added to Plants / Species Profiles at 02:54 PM



March 18, 2009

Species Profile -- Princess Tree

Added to Plants / Species Profiles at 02:45 PM



March 06, 2009

National Forests in North Carolina Approves Non-Native Invasive Species Control Project (Mar 4, 2009)

Added to Plants / Management / Decision Support Tools at 09:52 AM



February 06, 2009

Non-Native Plant Species Invasiveness Assessment

Added to Plants / Management / Decision Support Tools at 09:32 AM



February 05, 2009

Survey of Invasive Plants Impacting National Parks in the United States (Nov 25, 2008)

Added to Plants / Management / Monitoring at 05:16 PM

Mistaken Identity? Invasive Plants and their Native Look-alikes: an Identification Guide for the Mid-Atlantic (Nov 2008)

Added to Plants / Publications / General Publications and Reports at 08:13 AM



February 04, 2009

WeedUS: Database of Plants Invading Natural Areas in the United States

Added to Plants / Databases at 02:35 PM



January 23, 2009

Species Profile -- Old World Climbing Fern

Added to Plants / Species Profiles at 10:31 AM



December 29, 2008

Species Profile -- Oriental Bittersweet

Added to Plants / Species Profiles at 03:45 PM



December 24, 2008

Managing Invasive Plants: Concepts, Principles, and Practices

Added to Plants / Management / Control Mechanisms and Manager's Tool Kit at 11:17 AM



December 23, 2008

Is Your Bird Feeder a Weed Seeder?

Added to Plants / What You Can Do at 02:58 PM



October 07, 2008

Items of Interest in Seed

Added to Plants / Publications / Newsletters at 09:29 AM



September 19, 2008

Wildland Fire in Ecosystems: Fire and Nonnative Invasive Plants (Sep 2008)

Added to Plants / Publications / General Publications and Reports at 09:30 AM



August 29, 2008

Species Profile -- Cogongrass

Added to Plants / Species Profiles at 09:41 AM



August 26, 2008

Invasive Weed Impact Calculator

Added to Plants / Management / Decision Support Tools at 04:41 PM



July 24, 2008

Updated -- Noxious, Invasive, and Alien Plant Species: A Challenge in Wetland Restoration & Enhancement (Mar 2007)

Added to Plants / Publications / General Publications and Reports and Plants / Management / Restoration at 09:32 AM



July 15, 2008

Federal Noxious Weeds Disseminules of the U.S.

Added to Plants / Management / Prevention at 04:17 PM



April 10, 2008

Weed Watchers: A Volunteer-Based Invasive Plant Early Detection Program

Added to Plants / What You Can Do at 09:44 AM

Plants of Hawaii

Added to Plants / Image Galleries at 09:07 AM



April 04, 2008

Updated -- Chemical Weed Control for Field Crops, Pastures, Rangeland, and Noncropland (2008)

Added to Plants / Management / Control Mechanisms at 09:56 AM

Early Detection & Distribution Mapping System (EDDMapS)

Added to Aquatic Species / Management / Monitoring and Plants / Management / Monitoring at 09:18 AM



February 07, 2008

Final Vegetation Treatments Using Herbicides Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement - Record of Decision

Added to Plants / Management / Control Mechanisms at 10:07 AM



February 05, 2008

Invasive Plants: Guide to Identification and the Impacts and Control of Common North American Species (2007)

Added to Plants / Publications / Books at 04:35 PM



January 15, 2008

Invasive Plant Mapping: Southeast United States

Added to Plants / Management / Monitoring and United States at 03:25 PM



December 31, 2007

Codes of Conduct Prevent Spread of Invasive Ornamentals (Dec 27, 2007)

Added to Plants / Management / Prevention at 10:20 AM



December 21, 2007

USDA Concludes Genetically Engineered Creeping Bentgrass Investigation: USDA Assesses The Scotts Company, LLC $500,000 Civil Penalty (Nov 26, 2007)

Added to Plants / Management / Control Mechanisms at 08:33 AM



November 06, 2007

The Introduced Flora of Australia and Its Weed Status (Sep 2007)

Added to Plants / Publications / General Publications and Reports at 10:17 AM



November 02, 2007

Plant Management Cross-Journal Search

Added to Plants / Publications / Scientific Journal Articles at 11:16 AM



October 24, 2007

Invasive Species Technical Notes (Montana)

Added to Plants / Publications / General Publications and Reports and Manager's Tool Kit / Control / Management Plans by Geography at 09:47 AM

Developing Invasive Weed Prevention Areas for Rangeland Ecosystems - Invasive Species Technical Note Number MT-15 (Aug 2007)

Added to Plants / Management / Prevention at 09:34 AM

Volunteers and Invasive Plants: Learning and Lending a Hand

Added to Manager's Tool Kit / Outreach Tools and Plants / What You Can Do at 09:23 AM



October 10, 2007

The Weedy Truth About Biofuels (Oct 2007)

Added to Plants / Publications / General Publications and Reports at 09:50 AM



October 09, 2007

New version online -- Global Compendium of Weeds

Added to Plants / Databases at 11:16 AM



October 03, 2007

Plant Stewardship Index (PSI)

Added to Plants / Management / Decision Support Tools at 04:05 PM

Roadside Weed Management

Added to Plants / Publications / Books at 02:30 PM



September 25, 2007

International Weed Risk Assessment Workshop

Added to Plants / Management / Decision Support Tools at 09:51 AM



September 06, 2007

Weeds of Hawai'i’s Pastures and Natural Areas; An Identification and Management Guide (2003)

Added to Plants / Publications / General Publications and Reports at 11:44 AM



September 05, 2007

Weed Risk Assessments for Hawaii and Pacific Islands

Added to Plants / Management / Decision Support Tools at 03:53 PM



August 28, 2007

Cost Components for Non-Native Phreatophyte (Saltcedar and Russian Olive) Control (Nov 2006)

Added to Plants / Economic Impacts at 04:59 PM

Tamarisk Management Plans

Added to Plants / Management / Management Plans and Manager's Tool Kit / Control / Management Plans by Geography at 04:27 PM



August 23, 2007

Sonoran Desert Weedwackers

Added to Plants / What You Can Do at 02:21 PM

Exotic seed dispersal by white-tailed deer in southern Connecticut (2006)

Added to Plants / Publications / Scientific Journal Articles at 11:43 AM



August 22, 2007

National Wildlife Refuge Volunteer Weed Mapping Manual

Added to Plants / Management / Monitoring at 08:56 AM

Ecology of Weeds and Invasive Plants: Relationship to Agriculture and Natural Resource Management, 3rd Edition

Added to Plants / Publications / Books at 08:33 AM



July 17, 2007

Weevil Biological Control Agents of Aquatic and Terrestrial Weeds in the United States and Canada

Added to Aquatic Species / Management / Control / Control Mechanisms and Plants / Management / Control Mechanisms at 09:56 AM



June 19, 2007

Resource-use efficiency and plant invasion in low-resource systems (2007)

Added to Plants / Publications / Scientific Journal Articles at 01:34 PM

White River National Forest Invasive Plant Specie Management Environmental Assessment - DRAFT (Jun 7, 2007)

Added to Plants / Management / Decision Support Tools at 11:12 AM

Research in NOAA: Toward Understanding and Predicting Earth’s Environment - A Five-Year Plan: Fiscal Years 2007 - 2011 -- DRAFT (Jun 2007, Version 4.0)

Added to Plants / Management / Research Projects at 10:17 AM



June 06, 2007

Native Plant Information Network - Clearinghouse

Added to Plants / What You Can Do at 02:11 PM



May 23, 2007

Beware of What You Plant

Added to Plants / What You Can Do at 10:20 AM



May 22, 2007

Mile-A-Minute Weed - Name change

Added to Plants / Species Profiles at 08:41 AM



April 19, 2007

PlantFacts Database

Added to Plants / Databases at 10:18 AM



April 13, 2007

Risk Assessment for Invasive Plant Species

Added to Plants / Management / Decision Support Tools at 01:57 PM



April 10, 2007

Weed Information Management System (WIMS)

Added to Plants / Management / Decision Support Tools at 10:53 AM



April 09, 2007

Biofuels and Invasive Plant Species - White Paper (Feb 2007)

Added to Plants / Economic Impacts at 02:58 PM



April 05, 2007

Preventing horticultural introductions of invasive plants: potential efficacy of voluntary initiatives (2007)

Added to Plants / Publications / Scientific Journal Articles at 01:39 PM



March 29, 2007

Weed Watch

Added to Plants / Publications / Newsletters at 04:24 PM



March 13, 2007

Invasive Plants Take Root in Alaska Curriculum

Added to Plants / Educational Resources at 07:55 AM



March 06, 2007

Alien Invasions - Plants on the Move

Added to Plants / Educational Resources at 04:22 PM



February 20, 2007

Invasion of Piper aduncum in the shifting cultivation systems of Papua New Guinea (2006)

Added to Plants / Publications / Books at 08:20 AM



February 15, 2007

Approaches to Assessment of Cumulative Economic Impact of Invasive Plants (2005)

Added to Plants / Economic Impacts at 04:31 PM



February 13, 2007

Florida Exotic Pest Plant Database

Added to Plants / Databases at 11:07 AM



February 06, 2007

Targeted Grazing: A Natural Approach to Vegetation Management and Landscape EnhancementA handbook on grazing as a new ecological service (Dec 2006) - A handbook on grazing as a new ecological service (Dec 2006)

Added to Plants / Management / Control Mechanisms at 03:54 PM



February 02, 2007

Biofuels to the Invasive Species Fire? (Sep 2006)

Added to Plants / Publications / Scientific Journal Articles at 01:49 PM

Weed Warriors

Added to Plants / What You Can Do at 11:31 AM



January 31, 2007

Introduction to Weeds: What Are Weeds and Why Do We Care?

Added to Plants / Educational Resources at 08:28 AM



January 24, 2007

Weeds of California and Other Western States (2006)

Added to Plants / Publications / CD-ROM Products at 03:29 PM

Weeds of California and Other Western States

Added to Plants / Publications / Books at 03:25 PM

Yellow Starthistle Management Guide (Sep 2006)

Added to Plants / Management / Management Plans at 03:19 PM



January 05, 2007

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

Added to Plants / Management / Decision Support Tools at 08:56 AM



January 04, 2007

Updated - Plant Species That Threaten Ecosystems of the Pacific Islands (PIER)

Added to Plants / Publications / CD-ROM Products at 03:29 PM

Review of the National (Australia) Weed Risk Assessment System (Nov 30, 2005)

Added to Plants / Management / Decision Support Tools at 09:30 AM



December 28, 2006

Inventory and Survey Methods for Nonindigenous Plant Species - MSU Extension Publication EB0171 (Sep 2006)

Added to Plants / Publications / General Publications and Reports at 09:49 AM

The Role of Wildfire in the Establishment and Range Expansion of Nonnative Plant Species into Natural Areas

Added to Plants / Publications / General Publications and Reports at 09:37 AM



December 27, 2006

Plant Pathogens at Work: Progress and Possibilities for Weed Biocontrol

Added to Plants / Management / Control Mechanisms at 08:48 AM



December 21, 2006

Ongoing Series on Invasive Species

Added to Plants / Publications / General Publications and Reports at 09:49 AM



December 07, 2006

FLEPPC Quarterly Newsletters

Added to Plants / Publications / Newsletters at 04:19 PM

Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds

Added to Plants / Publications / Books at 08:10 AM



December 06, 2006

New England Plant Conservation Volunteers

Added to Plants / What You Can Do at 04:31 PM



November 29, 2006

Measuring Plant Diversity: Lessons from the Field

Added to Plants / Publications / Books at 10:25 AM



November 28, 2006

PLANTS Identification-Wetland Monocots

Added to Plants / Databases at 10:45 AM



November 27, 2006

Policy Statement on Arundo Donax (Oct 2006)

Added to Plants / Management / Policy Development at 04:14 PM



October 31, 2006

Native Alternatives to Invasive Plants

Added to Plants / Publications / Books at 10:06 AM



October 03, 2006

Informational Resources on Invasive Plants with a Focus on New England (Apr 7, 2006)

Added to Plants / Publications / General Publications and Reports at 01:45 PM

Invasive Plants - Weeds of the Week

Added to Plants / Publications / Fact Sheets at 08:20 AM



September 29, 2006

Parasitic Weed Uses Chemical Cues to Find Host Plant

Added to Plants / Publications / Scientific Journal Articles at 09:11 AM



September 21, 2006

Invasive Plant Council of British Columbia Newsletter

Added to Plants / Publications / Newsletters at 11:50 AM



September 18, 2006

Aquatic Plant Resistance to Herbicides (2006)

Added to Plants / Publications / Scientific Journal Articles at 02:38 PM

Southeast Exotic Plant Pest Council

Added to Plants / Discussion Groups at 11:29 AM



September 13, 2006

Nonnative Invasive Plants of Southern Forests: A Field Guide for Identification and Control (2003)

Added to Plants / Management / Control Mechanisms at 03:30 PM



September 11, 2006

Greener Roadsides

Added to Plants / Publications / Newsletters at 03:46 PM

Control of invasive weeds with prescribed burning (2006)

Added to Plants / Publications / Scientific Journal Articles at 01:35 PM



September 01, 2006

Linking Wilderness Research and Management, Volume 4 - Understanding and Managing Invasive Plants in Wilderness and Other Natural Areas: An Annotated Reading List

Added to Plants / Publications / Bibliographies at 11:37 AM



August 28, 2006

Co-occurence of Invasive Species on Priority Threatened and Endangered Species Installations

Added to Plants / Publications / General Publications and Reports at 08:17 AM



August 14, 2006

Integrating the study of non-native plant invasions across spatial scales

Added to Plants / Publications / Scientific Journal Articles at 10:28 AM



August 04, 2006

Field Survey of Growth and Colonization of Nonnative Trees on Mainland Alaska

Added to Plants / Publications / General Publications and Reports and United States at 07:54 AM



July 19, 2006

Invasive Species (I-Rank) Assessments

Added to Manager's Tool Kit / Control / Decision Support Tools and Plants / Management / Policy Development at 10:21 AM



July 18, 2006

An Invasive Species Assessment Protocol: Evaluating Non-Native Plants for Their Impact on Biodiversity

Added to Plants / Publications / General Publications and Reports at 02:44 PM

Key to Identification of Invasive and Native Hawkweeds (Hieracium spp.) in the Pacific Northwest (2006)

Added to Plants / Management / Management Plans at 02:26 PM



July 12, 2006

How Scientists Obtain Approval to Release Organisms for Classical Biological Control of Invasive Weeds (May 2005)

Added to Plants / Publications / General Publications and Reports at 09:45 AM

Invasive Plant Mapping Across the Southeastern United States

Added to Plants / Management / Monitoring at 09:15 AM



July 05, 2006

Conservation of Arizona Upland Sonoran Desert Habitat: Status and Threats of Buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare) in Arizona and Sonora - Final Report (May 25, 2006)

Added to Plants / Management / Monitoring at 09:38 AM



June 28, 2006

Invasive Plant Research

Added to Plants / Management / Research Projects at 09:03 AM

Don't Plant a Pest!

Added to Plants / What You Can Do at 08:30 AM

Interactive California Invasive Plant Inventory

Added to Plants / Databases at 08:08 AM



June 27, 2006

Use of Fire as a Tool for Controlling Invasive Plants (2006)

Added to Plants / Management / Control Mechanisms at 04:05 PM



June 22, 2006

Invasive Plant Scientific Journal Articles

Added to Plants / Publications / Scientific Journal Articles at 11:25 AM



June 13, 2006

Roots: Invasive Plants News of the Adirondack Park

Added to Plants / Publications / Newsletters at 08:11 AM

Detecting Plants Pests and Weed Nationwide: The Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey

Added to Plants / Management / Early Detection and Rapid Response at 07:50 AM



June 12, 2006

Midwest Invasive Plant Network Listserv

Added to Plants / Discussion Groups at 02:17 PM

Identifying & Managing Beach Vitex

Added to Plants / Species Profiles at 11:01 AM



June 07, 2006

Hoary Cress Consortium - Invasion Images

Added to Plants / Image Galleries at 11:21 AM



June 01, 2006

 
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