# Presentation: 224977

## Future Challenges

**The Initial Workshop on USGS/FWS Future Challenges**
**Summary of Invasive Species Breakout Session**

## Science Needed to Address Challenge

**Framework**
**Prevention**
**Early Detection**
**Control**
**Eradication**
**Restoration**
**Coordination **

## Science Needed to Address Challenge

**Applied Research for Control and Eradication**
**Chemical**
**Biological**
**Physical**
**Secondary effects**

## Science Needed to Address Challenge

**Integrated Science Approach**
**Focus on Methods and Tools for Prevention, Early Detection, Monitoring, Risk Assessment, and Control**

## 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**

## 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**

## 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**

## 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**

## 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**

## 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**

## 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**

## 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**

## 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**

## 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**

## Partnerships

**USGS/FWS Leadership **
**Engaged at the national level**
**International**
**Regulatory agencies to close the door (e.g., State Department, USDA, USTR) **

## Partnerships

**Regional**
**Canada**
**Mexico**
**Trilateral, NAFTA-CEC, NAPPO**

## Partnerships

**Federal**
**NISC**
**FICMNEW**
**ANSTF**
**ITAP (in development)**
**USDA, Forest Service, DOD, EPA, NOAA-Fisheries, NASA**

## Partnerships

**DOI Land Management Agencies**
**Invasive Species Group**
**USGS/FWS**
**Science Support Program**
**Training programs**
**Youth Conservation Corps**

## Partnerships

**State and Local**
**IAFWA**
**Friends groups**
**State invasive species councils**
**Other labor pools**
**Others**
**NGOs**
**University colleagues**
**Institute of Invasive Species Science**

## 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” **

## 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”**

## Top Priorities/Next Steps

**Action Areas**
**Management**
**Education**
**Policy and Regulation**
**Information Management**

## 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)**

## 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”**

## 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**

## 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**

## 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**

## 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**