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Introduction
The National Invasive Species Council (NISC), working with
its partner agencies and programs, will highlight a different
invasive species approximately every month in this space on www.invasivespecies.gov.
The goal of the program is to illustrate the depth and complexity
of invasive species issues and offer a chance for the wide variety
of federal agencies that work on invasive species issues to be
featured. The species chosen are representative and educational;
they do not constitute any special list or meet any particular
criteria but are merely highlights of a vast and intricate problem.
Since the creation of NISC in1999, federal agencies have been
working tirelessly to enhance their joint efforts to solve a
multitude of problems related to invasive species. NISC
has helped to coordinate and catalog the efforts of 23 federal
agencies that work on invasive species issues and to provide
tools to people in invasive species programs to assist in managing,
creating and maintaining activities. NISC is co-chaired
by the Secretaries of Agriculture, Interior, and Commerce and
includes the Secretaries of Transportation, Homeland Security,
State, Defense, Treasury, Health and Human Services, the Administrator
of the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Director of the
U.S. Agency for International Development.
Remember, you can help make a differencelearn about the National
Invasive Species Management Plan and the Invasive Species of
the Month.
Know
the NISC plan, manage the problem.
Prepare, Prevent, Protect.
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Invasive Species of the Month
September / October 2004
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