Agencies also need to develop a reporting system to support early detection and eradication efforts. Government agencies can undertake several initiatives that will help to enlist citizens in campaigns against exotics. Agencies can increase public awareness by distributing wanted posters that include pictures of the culprits and maps of their distribution. They can organizing volunteers to remove exotic plants from parks and natural areas and ask hikers and campers to report exotic plants in backcountry areas. They can involve scout groups by offering merit badges in return for help in the control of exotic plants or cash rewards for enrolling homeowners in programs to control exotics.
Local governments can organize prison laborers to remove invasive plants from public areas.
More research is needed to determine the most effective long-term strategies for controlling harmful exotic weeds. Simply killing weeds is not enough. More attention must be given to ecological considerations so that control efforts yield healthy and relatively weed-resistant plant communities. Existing and Promising Incentives Incentives for addressing exotic plant and animal problems should be focused on those problems that can be managed cost effectively. Offering bounty payments for delivery of desired exotic plants or animals.