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U.S. Department of the InteriorU.S. Geological SurveyU.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Future Challenges
The Initial Workshop on USGS/FWS Future Challenges
Summary of Invasive Species Breakout Session
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Science Needed to Address Challenge
• Framework– Prevention
– Early Detection
– Control
– Eradication
– Restoration
– Coordination
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Science Needed to Address Challenge
• Applied Research for Control and Eradication– Chemical
– Biological
– Physical
– Secondary effects
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Science Needed to Address Challenge
• Integrated Science Approach
• Focus on Methods and Tools for Prevention, Early Detection, Monitoring, Risk Assessment, and Control
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Science Needed to Address Challenge
• Pathways– Assessment of priority pathways and vectors
(ornamental plant trade and pet trade)
– Prediction of harm from alien species
– Influence of pathways on introduction and spread of invasives in ecosystem and communities
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Science Needed to Address Challenge
• Basic Ecological Research– Basic species biology on invasives
– Ecology and impacts of invasives
– Science of below ground effects
• Database Interoperability and Integration
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Science Needed to Address Challenge
• Mapping/Modeling– Smart monitoring protocols
– Ecological modeling• Spatial
• Niche
– Economic analysis and studies
– Improved forecasting and assessment
– Invasive species risk maps• Where to spend early detection money
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Science Needed to Address Challenge
• Mapping/Modeling (continued)– Systematic methods of assessment
• Document effects of conservation lands and native species
– National mapping, monitoring and assessment tied to technical assistance
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Science Needed to Address Challenge
• Control/Restoration Applied Research– Systemic methods of control
– Innovative control techniques
– Biotechnology tools to understand invasives
– Aquatic invasives• Chemicals
– Methodology for farm fish
– EPA chemical registration
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Science Needed to Address Challenge
• Control/Restoration Applied Research (continued)– Research on restoration scenarios
• What to plant after invasives are removed
– Leverage Homeland Security tools
• Economic Modeling of Costs and Benefits
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Resource Management Strategies Needed
• Planning– HCPs, CCPs, FMPs, Recovery Plans need to contain
concrete invasives management strategies including re-directing resources (human, $$)
– Management plan for native species and native ecosystems
– Goals and plans for partnerships needed in management plans
– Include monitoring strategies in management plans
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Resource Management Strategies Needed
• Legislation and National Policy– Close the door on invasives coming in
• Regulatory control for species coming in and going out
• Coordinate existing authorities; develop new authorities
• Develop new authority to prevent importation of suspect species
– Policies and guidelines for use of innovative (biotech) tools
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Research Management Strategies Needed
• Legislation and National Policy (continued)– Redirect resources for invasives (e.g., grants,
national map for monitoring and assessment)
• Outreach and Education– Communication strategy to educate on control
methodologies
– Outreach strategies needed in management plans
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Research Management Strategies Needed
• Field Operations– SOPs for not spreading invasives/pathogens
ourselves in refuges and hatcheries
– National coordination of Strike Teams
– Reporting control costs
– Develop and share restoration strategies
– Dedicated personnel to invasives on refuges
– Use assessments to prevent and control
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Partnerships
• USGS/FWS Leadership – Engaged at the national level
• International– Regulatory agencies to close the door (e.g., State
Department, USDA, USTR)
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Partnerships
• Federal– NISC
– FICMNEW
– ANSTF
– ITAP (in development)
• USDA, Forest Service, DOD, EPA, NOAA-Fisheries, NASA
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Partnerships
• DOI Land Management Agencies– Invasive Species Group
• USGS/FWS– Science Support Program
– Training programs
– Youth Conservation Corps
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Partnerships
• State and Local– IAFWA– Friends groups– State invasive species councils– Other labor pools
• Others– NGOs– University colleagues– Institute of Invasive Species Science
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Pearls of Wisdom
• 4600 acres of Federal land are infested with invasive species every day
• 100 million acres of Federal land are infested with invasive species
• Invasives is a primary factor in species endangerment
• “Those who know HOW will always follow those who know WHY”
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Pearls of Wisdom
• Look outside your fishbowl!
• “You can’t solve problems at the level they are created.” (Einstein)
• “You can always count on America to do the right thing…after all other possibilities have been exhausted.” (Winston Churchill)
• “Million Watchful Eyes”
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Top Priorities/Next Steps
• Action Areas– Management
– Education
– Policy and Regulation
– Information Management
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Top Priorities/Next Steps: Short-term
• Identify champions at all levels
• Obtain leadership decision to direct resources to invasives
• Include invasive species in all management plans
• Identify incipient infestations (even outside boundaries)
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Top Priorities/Next Steps: Short-term
• Describe current status of managing non-natives including outcomes
• Establish monitoring priorities re: invasives
• Develop Citizen Outreach Plan– Involvement plan
– Management of citizen science to determine involvement and early detection
– “Million Watchful Eyes”
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Top Priorities/Next Steps: Short-term
• Identify effective chemicals registered with EPA
• Initiate dialogues about closing the door
• Develop synthesis and catalog of science underway– Directory of resources
– Working group to review existing plans and synthesize
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Top Priorities/Next Steps: Short-term
• Initiate passback conversation with BLM
• Assemble work group by October to identify Top 10 Studies– Direct resources
– Influence budget
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Top Priorities/Next Steps: Long-term
• Build the WILL to take action
• Improve local to global consultation and coordination
• Review authorities and recommend to Directors legislation needed to fill gaps (e.g., Invasive Species Act)
• Move toward greater emphasis on prevention and early detection
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Top Priorities/Next Steps: Long-term
• Develop national ecological forecasting
• Create similar emphasis for combating invasive species as exists for protecting endangered species
• Measure effectiveness against long-term specific goal(s)
• Monitor adaptive management strategies
• Build or buy taxonomists