Invasive Species News

Good Housekeeping - The State Journal-Register

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:37 GMT

Good Housekeeping
The State Journal-Register
It's also a great time to get a handle on invasive species. Non-native invaders are the second biggest reason native species become endangered after habitat ...

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Seaway official dispels 'myths' - WatertownDailyTimes.com

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:10 GMT

Seaway official dispels 'myths'
WatertownDailyTimes.com
Mr. Johnson also defended the Seaway's record on management of invasive species and said measures already in place — dumping of ballast water outside the ...

Two More Suits Filed in Legal War Over Bay-Delta Smelt - Environment News Service

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:36 GMT

Environment News Service

Two More Suits Filed in Legal War Over Bay-Delta Smelt
Environment News Service
These fishes have been stressed by increases in water exports, toxic chemicals and invasive species. In addition to filing the two lawsuits, the Center for ...

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Details on closing the Sanitary and Ship Canal - Chicago Sun-Times

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:27 GMT

Details on closing the Sanitary and Ship Canal
Chicago Sun-Times
Once in Lake Michigan, this invasive species could access many new tributaries connected to the Great Lakes. These fish aggressively compete with native ...
USA. Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal to close for fish barrier maintenanceBYM News (press release)

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Getting Lake Erie healthy - 13abc.com

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:22 GMT

Getting Lake Erie healthy
13abc.com
Great Lakes Restoration Initiative will fund projects across Ohio and Michigan to combat problems like algae blooms and invasive species. ...

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Hand-writing on the wall for kudzu? - Access North Georgia

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:27 GMT

Hand-writing on the wall for kudzu?
Access North Georgia
It's an “invasive species feeding on an invasive species.” control soil erosion. It now tops the nation's invasive species list. ...

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Problems mount for Crist in Florida - Southern Political Report

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:10 GMT

Problems mount for Crist in Florida
Southern Political Report
It was decades before the plant was recognized as a virulent invasive species, and by then it had grown completely out of control. ...

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Predator Beetle To Battle Hemlock Pest

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:00 GMT

Hemlock woolly adelgids (HWA) -- aphidlike insects that have destroyed stands of hemlocks throughout the East Coast -- were first identified in hemlocks in the central Finger Lakes in summer 2008. To battle the hemlock-killing insects, a team of entomologists has released one of the adelgids' natural predators as a case study.

State Environmental Officials Deal Lethal Blow To Invasive Species - WISN.com

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:24 GMT

State Environmental Officials Deal Lethal Blow To Invasive Species
WISN.com
State environmental officials dealt a lethal blow to an invasive species on Thursday. A neighborhood pond in Germantown has become overrun with Louisiana ...

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Watery invaders pose danger to waterways, speaker warns

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:05 GMT

The alewife, the sea lamprey, zebra and quagga mussels, the round goby, spiny water fleas, rusty crayfish, bloody red shrimp, and the silver and bighead carp. . . the invasive species are rapidly taking over -- and overtaking -- Midwestern waterways.

Watery invaders pose danger to waterways, speaker warns - Gary Post Tribune

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:11 GMT

Watery invaders pose danger to waterways, speaker warns
Gary Post Tribune
If the names of these sea creatures don't scare you, they be, because the invasive species are rapidly taking over -- and overtaking -- Midwestern waterways ...

DNR leaves 300 jobs unfilled - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:41 GMT

DNR leaves 300 jobs unfilled
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
More invasive species. More challenges. But fewer people to do the work. An additional drop - to 2674 full-time equivalents - is budgeted for 2010. ...

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UN says invasive species poes huge threat to ecosystems and biodiversity - Examiner.com

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:03 GMT

UN News Centre

UN says invasive species poes huge threat to ecosystems and biodiversity
Examiner.com
As climate change alters temperature and rainfall patterns around the globe, the threat posed by invasive species is becoming greater, and scientists and ...
SEAL THE DEAL: Invasive species pose huge threat to ecosystems, UN saysUN News Centre

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New order prohibits possession of invasive mollusk - Spinal Column Online

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:08 GMT

Spinal Column Online

New order prohibits possession of invasive mollusk
Spinal Column Online
November 11, 2009 - The Michigan Natural Resources Commission (NRC) has approved a new invasive species order and added the New Zealand mud snail to the ...

SEAL THE DEAL: Invasive species pose huge threat to ecosystems, UN says - UN News Centre

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:29 GMT

UN News Centre

SEAL THE DEAL: Invasive species pose huge threat to ecosystems, UN says
UN News Centre
The beetle is one of hundreds of what scientists call invasive species – animals, plants and organisms that “arrive, survive and thrive” in previously ...

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Editorial: Great Lakes a step closer to recovery - Sheboygan Press

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:10 GMT

Editorial: Great Lakes a step closer to recovery
Sheboygan Press
Much of the cost of Great Lakes work, especially the fight against invasive species and wetland restoration, has been borne by the states and local ...
Preserving a heritageMilwaukee Journal Sentinel
President Signs Legislation To Spend $475M Restoring Great LakesSt. Ignace News (subscription)

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Friends of Jockey's Ridge Lecture Series to focus on invasive species - Outer Banks Sentinel

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:21 GMT

Friends of Jockey's Ridge Lecture Series to focus on invasive species
Outer Banks Sentinel
Davis will give a presentation, "Identification, Management, and Environmental Impacts of Invasive Species," Monday, Nov. 16 at 5:30 pm at the Visitor ...

Africa's Rarest Monkey Had An Intriguing Sexual Past, DNA Study Confirms

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:00 GMT

The most extensive DNA study to-date of Africa's rarest monkey reveals that the species had an intriguing sexual past. Of the last two remaining populations of the recently discovered kipunji, one population shows evidence of past mating with baboons while the other does not, says a new study in Biology Letters. The results may help to set conservation priorities for this critically endangered species, researchers say.

Preserving a heritage - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:38 GMT

Preserving a heritage
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The initiative invests in solutions to stop aquatic invasive species that cost the region at least $200 million annually in damage; clean up contaminated ...
President Signs Legislation To Spend $475M Restoring Great LakesSt. Ignace News (subscription)

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Science panel to weigh in on Delta - Contra Costa Times

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:11 GMT

Science panel to weigh in on Delta
Contra Costa Times
... species and how those effects compare to other environmental problems, including ammonia from sewage treatment plants, pesticides and invasive species. ...
Top US scientists to study California irrigation practicesMcClatchy Washington Bureau

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Invasive plant species threatens Shore plants, animals, dunes - Cherry Hill Courier Post

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:39 GMT

Invasive plant species threatens Shore plants, animals, dunes
Cherry Hill Courier Post
Wootton, who has studied invasive species for 12 years, is not alone in asking for the green light to fight Asiatic sand sedge. The yellow-green plant was ...

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Could 'Assisted Migration' Save Rare Plant Species? - New West

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:36 GMT

New West

Could 'Assisted Migration' Save Rare Plant Species?
New West
But, the notion has become a controversial one, critics saying so-called “assisted migration” can be costly and could spread invasive species in place they ...

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Bug found in Georgia a threat to soybeans? - Southeast Farm Press

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:51 GMT

Bug found in Georgia a threat to soybeans?
Southeast Farm Press
It's an “invasive species feeding on an invasive species.” Introduced to the US in 1876 from Japan, kudzu was planted in the 1930s to control soil erosion. ...

New woodland invasive species subject of Elmira talk - Elmira Star-Gazette

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:19 GMT

New woodland invasive species subject of Elmira talk
Elmira Star-Gazette
Learn about the history and diversity of invasive species and how the Asian Longhorned Beetle and Emerald Ash Borer will affect the area in the years to ...

Forestry officials advocate local firewood - Watauga Democrat

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:44 GMT

Forestry officials advocate local firewood
Watauga Democrat
The insects, known as non-native invasive species, are making their way across state borders in a number of ways but the biggest culprit is firewood, ...

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Forest/woodland program on invasive plants set by Rutgers Extension in ... - Somerset Reporter - NJ.com

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:58 GMT

Forest/woodland program on invasive plants set by Rutgers Extension in ...
Somerset Reporter - NJ.com
A forest management/stewardship program called “Biological Control of Invasive Species in New Jersey” will be held Thursday, Nov. ...

COMMENTARY: Zebra mussels (and Lots of other species) invading Great Lakes and no one can decide what to do about it

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:05 GMT

The mussels have hitched rides in the ballasts of ships coming into port, and while politicians have tried to get the shipping industry to help curb the problem through regulations, there haven't been any successes. But with 15,000 lakes to worry about, standing around bickering about what to do isn't helping the situation.

Zebra mussels (and lots of other species) invading Great Lakes and no one can decide what to do about it

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:05 GMT

Out of the 185 invasive species in and around the Great Lakes, zebra mussels are posing a painful problem.

BioSecurity Task Force Formed To Combat Invasive Species - Pacific News Center

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:12 GMT

BioSecurity Task Force Formed To Combat Invasive Species
Pacific News Center
The aim is to control or eliminate the invasive species that are here and prevent others from getting in. Efforts to combat the invasion of foreign species ...
Task force group combats invasive speciesKUAM.com

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Task force group combats invasive species - KUAM.com

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:14 GMT

Task force group combats invasive species
KUAM.com
There's a new collaborative group that will combat invasive species that attempt to penetrate Guam's borders. ...