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From a 10/12/2007 USDA Press Release: WASHINGTON, Oct. 12, 2007— Acting Agriculture Secretary Chuck Conner announced today universities in four states will receive $950,000 in cooperative agreements for research against harmful pests and diseases. "We have selected six research projects that will...

The USDA National Invasive Species Information Center has several new items: The Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk (HEAR) has updated it's website. In particular, the Global Compendium of Weeds as updated recently (10/04/07). USDA Economic Research Service released its report on the Program of Research...

As part of the Weed Science Society of America annual meeting , February 4-7, 2008 in Chicago, a Symposium will be held entitled " Invasive Plant Species and the New Bioeconomy ." This special symposium will be held on Wednesday, February 6, 2008 from 1:00 pm - 5:10 pm. Deployment of exotic...

From USDA National Invasive Species Information Center: Harper-Lore, Bonnie /L, Maggie Johnson, and Mark W. Skinner, eds. Roadside Weed Management . U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, 2007. The Federal Highway Administration in partnership with the Environmental Protection...

From the University of California-Riverside press release and published in EurekAlert! October 1, 2007 . Book on weeds and invasive plants discusses how to manage them using ecological approaches Invasive species are a prime reason for loss of biodiversity, says UC Riverside's Jodie Holt, a co-author...

From EurekAlert!. The American Society for Horticultural Science has published multimedia podcast files of 98 horticulture presentations from the 2007 Annual Conference in Scottsdale, Ariz. Are you looking for the latest horticulture research on high tunnels, grafting vegetables or water conservation...

Hawaii Ecosystems at Risk (HEAR) ( www.hear.org ) has posted presentations from the 2nd International Weed Risk Assessment Workshop . The workshop held in Perth, Australia on September 14, 15, 2007 was part of the 9th International Conference on the Ecology and Management of Alien Plant Invasions . Presentations...

As reported in the Baltimore Sun, invasive species might be a good thing for an ecosystem . A U.S. Geological Survey scientist, Nancy Rybicki has published research that aquatic plants in the Potomac River might actually be a good thing. A 2007 study published in Limnology and Oceanography, by Rybicki...