$138 Billion per Year!!! Insects

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1 Organizing to Succeed Against Invasive Plants and Strategies to Take Control and Restore James H. Miller Southern Research Station ALIPC Board USDA Forest Service Major Types of Invasive Species... Mullocks Fish Rates Aquatic Plants 50,000 Foreign Species And Invasive Plants Exotics) Crop THAT ARE FREE Counting LIVING Weeds Rangelands Forests Over Injurious 3,500 PLANT SPECIES Natural Areas Wildlife HAVE BEEN INTRODUCED Insects and Diseases Birds Reptiles Annual Costs in Billion Dollars $34 $1 Diseases Plants Mollusks $57 Fish $138 Billion per Year!!! Insects Hilly $37 Mammals $25 Microbes Bush Honeysuckles Ailanthus Microstegium Paulownia Mile-a-minute Weed Russian Olive Purple lossestrife Garlic Mustard Winged Burning Bush Oriental Bittersweet Akebia Chinese Yam Scotchbroom Tamarisk Japanese Honeysuckle Chinese Silvergrass Alluvial Knapweeds Floodplain Chinese Privet Callery pear European privet Yellow Star Thistle Chinese Lespedeza Kudzu Wisterias Silverthorn Nonnative Roses Hilly Coastal Tall Plain Hilly Coastal Plain fescue Bamboos MCP TropicalSoda Apple Lespedezas Autumn Olive Air Yam & Water Yam Tallowtree Japanese Climbing Fern Glossy Privet Giant Salvinia Tungoil tree Alligatorweed Water Hyacinth LCP Appalachian Appalachian Mts. Mts. Middle Coastal Plain Piedmont Piedmont Lower Lower Coastal Coastal Plain Plain FIA Survey Vic Rudis, USFS SRS Chinese Privet Oriental bittersweet 1

2 ºN is a Federally Listed Noxious Weed World s s Worst Plant Invader of Natural Lands 30ºN Entered U.S. at Grand Bay ºW 25ºN Potential Spread!! Eradication Programs in Place Infested States There are no Invasive Surveys for other Recent FIA Data - Occupation of SE Forests Japanese Honeysuckle 107 Million Acres Chinese Privet 23 Million Acres Tallow Landuse/Commodity tree 15 Million Acres Tall Fescue 13 Million Acres Exotic Roses Areas!!! 13 Million acres Tree-of-heaven 4 million acres (or Waterways and Kudzu, Mimosa, Chinaberry 2 Million acres ea Rivers and Streams?) Spread of Chinese Privet (Ligustrum sinense) NRCS Website and Potential Spread of Additional Invasive Species Tallowtree The inevitable.or not, if we choice What we do or not do in the next decade will determine the extent and severity of change forever to our current natural communities and production ecosystems being wrough by Alien invasive plant species as well as by our destruction of soils & habitats. 2

3 We Must Have Developments in. Fragmented and Disturbed Landscapes with Mixed Land-use, Water-use, and Right-of-ways 1. Awareness and Knowledge 2. Organization 3. Funding 4. Resolve and Commitment NGOs like TNC Aquatic Managers Farmers and Farm Associations Restorationists Horse Industry & Equestrians Turfgrass Producers Cattle Producers Formal Gardens & Arboretums Control Services ROW Managers Homeowners & Gardeners Preserve Managers Horticulture Growers Forest Landowners and Associations Agency Land Managers & Staff Professionals Wildlife Managers & Sportsmen & Assoc Congressional Leaders Policy Makers Cities and Municipalities Researchers Herbicide and Mechanical Academicians Equipment Industries Weed Teams Wildflower People Plant People Increased Awareness and Knowledge of the Problem and Solutions The Need for Enhanced Knowledge Networks and Connectivity Adaptive Collaborative Restoration Knowledge Networks Multiple Partners and Stakeholders at Multiple Scales Knowledge Systems are the Linkages National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) Up-to-date Information on Invasive Species by Categories of threat by Commodity group and Landuse/water-use Detailed Identification Guides Real-time Occupation and Spread Predictions Cost-benefit/Risk Analyses Control strategies, treatments and restoration procedures Service Providers and Native Plants Sources and Networks Pathway Preventions Ecological information Recognizing We Will Always Be Operating with Incomplete Information, if we are to react in a timely and effective manner Connectivity by Categories of individuals Among federal and State Agencies and NGOs Early Detection and Response Network Access to laws, policies, and strategic plans; environmental assessments and EISs 3

4 Understanding is Growing Daily with Many Publications The SE and State EPPC Websites Must Contribute se-eppc.org eppc.org Frontiers in Ecology and Environment & Issues in Ecology - ESA Weed Technology and Weed Science WSSA The IPINAMS Conf. Proc. Natural Areas Journal -NAA National Geographic Discovery All Management & Trade Magazines LISTS Needed with Assessments for the Region and Each State Invasive Plants by Categories with Strategies Invasive Plants produced and sold in the Trade Recommended Replacement Species Landscaping, gardens, and trees Cutbank stabilization plantings Special Habitats needing Protection by Categories of Priority TN EPPC Listing Categories Rank 1 "Severe Threat" Exotic plant species that possess characteristics of invasive species and spread easily into native plant communities and displace native vegetation; includes species that are or could become widespread in Tennessee. Rank 2 "Significant Threat" Exotic plant species that possess characteristics of invasive species but are not presently considered to spread as easily into native plant communities as those species listed as Rank 1. 1 Rank 3 "Lesser Threat" Exotic plant species that spread in or near disturbed areas; and are not presently considered a threat to native plant communities. Watch List A -- Exotic plants that naturalize and may become a problem in the future. At this time more information is needed, and there is no consensus about their status. Watch List B -- Exotic plant species that are severe problems in surrounding states but have not been reported in Tennessee Integrated Vegetation Management (IVM) Prescribed Burning Biological Control The Potential for Biological Control? This is a big hope! Kudzu sawflies Which includes Prevention Mechanical Manual and Motor-Manual Herbicides Documenting Occurrence, Treatment, and Progress Search and Surveillance Survey sample large area Inventory- record each infestation after Treatment and Document Control- Repeated Inventory 4

5 Thistle s Lespedeza s Prevention Search Early Alerts Surveillance Inventory Inventory Species Strategies Outliers Advancing Front Contain by Inventory and Eradication Contain by Inventory and Eradication Survey Special Habitat Protect Eradication Severely Infested or Occupied Zones Manage and Control Alabama s Invasive Plants Tree of Heaven Organizing to Succeed Chinese Privet Tropical Soda Apple National Regional Your State State Alliances is where programs State come Cooperative Weed Management Areas together I n v a s i v e U p l a n d P l a n t Management Strategies Think Statewide but act and empower at the local level Florida s Regional Work Group Concept (over 500 state, federal, and local government participants in FLA) Regional Southern Regional Center for Invasive Plants Agencies and and SE EPPC NGO s Multi-state Alliances State Multi County: Cooperative Weed Management Area? 5

6 Organizing A State Early Detection and Rapid Response Regional Coordinator State Invasive Executive Council State Land and Environment Agency Heads and NGO s Invasive Technical Steering Committee State EPPC Staff Representatives of State Land and Environment Agency Heads and NGOs Committees Invasive Advisory Committee Concerned Landowners & Managers, Researchers, and Extension Program Program Program Program Program State Soil and Water Conservation Districts Response, Control, and Contacts for Early Verification State or Agency Invasive Coordinator 1. Verify 2. Assessment 3. Response Detectors Informed Volunteers or State Agency and Informed Landowners Photo s Here Local Partnerships and Weed Teams will continue to grow and Be the Backbone North Carolina Giant Salvinia Task Force Funding Funding Funding Presentations by Bean, Waitt and Taylor Noxious Weed Control and Eradication Act 2004 If appropriated, $3 million/yr for 5 yr. Farm Bill Programs NRCS Environmental Quality Improvement Program F&WS Wildlife Improvement Program Additional Funds for invasive plants will only come when we and our citizens demand them. The Faces of Resolve and Commitment If you stand with these people? STAND UP NOW 6

7 Together We Can Halt the Flood Stem the Tide Combat the invasion Counter the Bioterrorism in our Country Stand Firm and Make a Difference Give Back a Sustainable Future. 7