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National Resources

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Alien Plant Working Group
Fact sheets, plant lists, and background information.

Alien Plant Invaders of Natural Areas
A HUGE list of plants with states and natural areas where they are invasive. Fact sheets are available for some plants.

Bugwood Network
The Mission of The Bugwood Work Group is to gather, create, maintain, promote the use of, and economically distribute digital information both as resources and as tools to enhance and complement information exchange and educational activities primarily in the fields of entomology, forestry, forest health and natural resources.

Center for Invasive Plant Management
Fighting weeds in the western states.

Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health
Consolidation and dissemination of information and programs focused on invasive species.

Food and Agricultural Organization: Invasive Species impacts on forests and forestry
From the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations.

Fire Effects Information System
Provides up-to-date information about fire effects on animals and plants.

Forest Service Forest Health (USDA)
Forest Health Protection’s mission is to protect and improve the health of America’s rural, wildland, and urban forests.

Invaders Database System
Noxious weed lists, and weeds of northwest US.

Invasivespecies.gov
Invasivespecies.gov is the gateway to Federal efforts concerning invasive species. On this site you can learn about the impacts of invasive species and the Federal government's response, as well as read select species profiles and find links to agencies and organizations dealing with invasive species issues. Invasivespecies.gov is also the Web site for the National Invasive Species Council, which coordinates Federal responses to the problem.

Invasive Plant Atlas of New England
Database of invasive and potentially invasive plants in New England.

Invasive and Exotic Species of North America
Invasive.org is a joint project of The Bugwood Network, USDA Forest Service and USDA APHIS PPQ. The University of Georgia - Warnell School of Forest Resources and College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences - Dept. of Entomology.

Invasive Species Information Node (NBII)
The Invasive Species Information Node (ISIN) creates a central repository for information pertaining to the identification, description, management, and control of invasive species.

Marine Invasions Research Lab
Brought to you by the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.

NAWMA Mapping Standards
The North American Weed Management Association's set of mapping standards for invasive plant species that facilitate consistency in data collection.

National Association of Exotic Pest Plant Councils
The National Association of Exotic Pest Plant Councils (NAEPPC) was established in October1995 by the signature of representatives of the first four state and regional Exotic Pest Plant Councils (see attached MOU). NAEPPC was established because the Exotic Pest Plant Councils recognized the value of cooperation through a national association of like organizations that share common goals.

National Institute of Invasive Species Science
The National Institute of Invasive Species Science is a consortium of government and non-government organizations formed to develop cooperative approaches for invasive species science that meet the urgent needs of land managers and the public. Administratively housed at the U.S. Geological Survey Fort Collins Science Center in Colorado, the National Institute of Invasive Species Science provides a hub for invasive species science collaboration, coordination, and integration across agencies and disciplines.

Nonindigenous Aquatic Species
Another USGS site, very meaty.

TNC Invasive Species Initiative
The Nature Conservancy's response to abating the damage caused to native biodiversity by the human-facilitated introduction of non-native, harmful invasive species. This web site provides many resources designed to help all conservationists deal most effectively with invasive species.

Union of Concerned Scientists
Promote scientifically sound solutions to the major problems of global environmental change. We focus on: Forests, Global Warming, and Invasive Species.

USDA Animal and Plant Health inspection Service (APHIS)
The Animal and Plant Health inspection Service (APHIS) is responsible for protecting and promoting U.S. agricultural health, administering the Animal Welfare Act, and carrying out wildlife damage management activities.

USDA ARS
Exotic & Invasive Weed Research Unit.

USDA Forest Service Forest Health Protection
Forest Health protection programs emphasize protecting the long-term health and sustainability of our forests. Our major responsibilities are to assist the States with implementing their forest health programs and to provide forest health support on National Forests and other federal lands.

USDA Plants Federal and State Noxious Weed Lists
View Federal and state noxious weed lists, an invasive plant list, or an introduced plant list, each with links to more information.

USFWS Invasive Species
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is the only agency of the U.S. Government whose primary responsibility is the conservation of the nation’s fish, wildlife, and plants.

Weeds Gone Wild: Alien Plant Invaders of Natural Areas
Weeds Gone Wild is a web-based project of the Plant Conservation Alliance's Alien Plant Working Group, that provides information for the general public, land managers, researchers, and others on the serious threat and impacts of invasive alien (exotic, non-native) plants to the native flora, fauna, and natural ecosystems of the United States.