Table of Contents:
  • Invasive species issues, traditions, consumer expectations, current understandings, competing goals, and the law / John Peter Thompson
  • Overview of prohibited and permitted plant regulatory listing systems / Randy G. Westbrooks and Alan V. Tasker
  • Post-border weed risk assessment / Terri Killeffer and Kelly Gravuer
  • Applying NEPA requirements for federal weed management programs / Gina Ramos
  • Aquatic herbicide registration new model / Kurt D. Getsinger, Mike D. Netherland, and Don R. Stubbs
  • Overview and status of the witchweed (Striga asiatica) eradication program in the Carolinas / Richard D. Iverson [and others]
  • Invasive plant management in the United States National Wildlife Refuge system / Michael Lusk and Jenny Ericson
  • USDA Forest Service national strategy and implementation plan for invasive species management / Michael Ielmini
  • Roadsides
  • front yard of the nation / Bonnie Harper-Lore
  • Invasive plant management on western public lands by the Bureau of Land Management / Gina Ramos
  • Federal interagency coordination for invasive plant issues
  • the Federal Interagency Committee for the Management of Noxious and Exotic Weeds (FICMNEW) / Randy G. Westbrooks
  • Regional centers of excellence: the Center for Invasive Plant Management / Janet K. Clark
  • Interagency partnering for weed prevention
  • progress on development of a national early detection and rapid response system for invasive plants in the United States / Randy G. Westbrooks
  • New approaches for volunteer data collection and analysis
  • the Invasive Plant Atlas of New England / Leslie J. Mehrhoff
  • Overview and history of the Beach Vitex Task Force
  • an interagency partnership in action / Randy G. Westbrooks and Elizabeth N. Brabson
  • New approaches for invasive plant management through cooperative weed management areas: the Southfork Weed Management Area in Park County, Wyoming / Bob Parsons
  • Cooperation across federal and local jurisdictions for invasive species management: buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare) in southern Arizona / Lindy A. Brigham, Richard Brusca, and Julio Betancourt
  • Plant management in natural areas / Steven Manning and James Miller
  • Chemical control methods and tools / Steven Manning and James Miller
  • Manual, mechanical, and cultural control methods and tools / Steven Manning and James Miller
  • Length of lag phase and additional factors related to introduction and early spread of invasive plants: a regulator's view / Alan V. Tasker.