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Board of Directors President: John Brubaker Vice President: Pat Layton, Department Head, College of Forestry and Natural Resources, Clemson Treasurer/Membership:

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Page 1: Board of Directors President: John Brubaker Vice President: Pat Layton, Department Head, College of Forestry and Natural Resources, Clemson Treasurer/Membership:
Page 2: Board of Directors President: John Brubaker Vice President: Pat Layton, Department Head, College of Forestry and Natural Resources, Clemson Treasurer/Membership:

Board of Directors• President: John Brubaker • Vice President: Pat Layton, Department Head, College of Forestry and Natural

Resources, Clemson• Treasurer/Membership: Colette Degarady, The Nature Conservancy • Secretary: Alex Gregg, National Park Service •

• Members-at-Large:• Sudie Daves - Biologist, NRCS • Helen Legree Floyd –Nursery Industry• Travis Rogers - Dow AgroSciences• Brett Moule, SCDNR • David Bourgeois, Mead Westvaco• Bill Hulslander, National Park Service • Laurie Reid, SC Forestry Commission • Robin Mackie, USFS

Diverse assemblage of board members representing different partners in the state.

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SC EPPC Committees

• Early Detection Rapid Response

• Education/Outreach and Web Site Updates

• Invasive Plant Mapping Data Coordination

• Chinese Privet Control Task Force

• Kudzu Control Task Force

• SC Invasive Species Plant List

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Early Detection and Rapid Response (EDRR)• Warning system

– Interagency coordination– Rapid assessment– Rapid response

• USDA website

•http://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/toolkit/detection.shtml

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• Worst Invasive Plant in Southeast

• Federally Noxious Weed

• SC Statewide Cogongrass survey, May 15-18– Sponsored by SC-EPPC– http://www.clemson.edu/for/cogon_home.html– More than 100 volunteers search across the state

Cogongrass

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SC Invasive Data Coordinator• Contract position using pooled partner funds• Will assemble and organize invasive plant data

across the state• Will train agency staff on entering data into

EDDMapS

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Invasive species list

•List found on SC EPPC website and within brochure

•Organized by severity, region, type of plant

•Recently updated

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Kudzu Coalition (non-chemical)

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• Betsy Brabson • Coordinator, SC BV Task Force• t: 843-546-9531• f: 843-436-0273• http://www.beachvitex.org/

Downloadable brochure

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SC EPPC to host SE-EPPC Symposium 2009!

• May 13-15

• Georgetown, South Carolina– Great coastal location, near Charleston and

Myrtle Beach

• A number of invasive species in various habitats available for in-field training sessions