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Welcome!
The Invasive Species of Eastern USA blog features the latest news about invasive species on the East Coast of the United States.
Each blog features a week's worth of news, and is updated several times during the week.
If you're interested in current invasive species issues and news related to the East Coast only, this is a good place to check each week.
I may occasionally post articles about deer management. Although white-tailed deer are a native species, overbrowsing can severely damage ecological communities.
Click the banner at the top of the page for the latest blog.
Some useful links can be found below on the right.
Thank you for visiting!
Bill Jacobs
Each blog features a week's worth of news, and is updated several times during the week.
If you're interested in current invasive species issues and news related to the East Coast only, this is a good place to check each week.
I may occasionally post articles about deer management. Although white-tailed deer are a native species, overbrowsing can severely damage ecological communities.
Click the banner at the top of the page for the latest blog.
Some useful links can be found below on the right.
Thank you for visiting!
Bill Jacobs
About Me
- Bill Jacobs
- I am a consulting ecologist specializing in ecological restoration, invasive species, and conservation planning. I have a 20-year background in natural resources management, including nine years with The Nature Conservancy on Long Island as Invasive Species Project Director. Past employers include the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC), Natural Land Institute, and Onondaga County Parks. I have an M.S. degree in forest resources management from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) at Syracuse. Most importantly, I have three wonderful children: Erin, Cara, and Willy. This is my personal blog; the views expressed here are my own. To contact me regarding invasive species, please e-mail me at bjacobs@geiconsultants.com
State Links
- Aquatic Invasive Species by State - USGS
- Current State of Aquatic Invasive Species in Central New York (report)
- Maine's Virtual Herbarium of Aquatic Plants
- Massachusetts Introduced Pests Outreach Project
- Mile-a-Minute in Connecticut
- New York Flora Association blog
- New York Flora Atlas
- NY Invasive Species Information Clearinghouse
- NY Invasive Species Research Institute (NYISRI)
- Pest Threats Website by U of Maryland
- State Laws and Regulations
- State Plant Health Directors (SPHD) and Contacts
- State Resources - NBII
- State Resources - USDA
- U of Georgia - Research on Genetics of Invasive Species
Regional, National, and Global Links
- Alien Forest Pest Explorer - USDA Forest Service
- Aquatic Invasive Species, Education and Outreach Materials - Portland State University
- Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force
- Aquatic Plant Information System - USACE
- Aquatic Plant Management Society
- Asian Carp Management
- Beetle Busters - Asian Longhorned Beetle
- Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants
- Center for Invasive Plant Management
- CitSci.org Invasive Species Mapping
- Conserve Online
- Continental Dialogue on Non-Native Forest Insects and Diseases
- Cornell University Invasive Plant Program
- Don't Move Firewood - EAB and other pests
- Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center
- Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) tools
- EDDMapS - Early Detection and Distribution Mapping System
- EEA Environmental Consultants
- Emerald Ash Borer info
- EPA Invasive Species
- Federal Laws and Regulations
- Federal Noxious Weed Disseminules of the U.S. (FNW E2)
- Global Invasive Species Database
- Global Invasive Species Programme (GISP)
- Grants and Funding
- iMapInvasives - On-line, GIS-based invasive species mapping tool
- Invasipedia - houses information on invasive plants, animals, and pathogens, and how to manage them.
- Invasive and Exotic Species of North America
- Invasive Exotic Plant Tutorial - Penn DCNR
- Invasive Plant Atlas of New England (IPANE)
- Invasive Plants of the Eastern United States, Identification and Control
- Invasive Species Information Node
- Invasive Species Listservs (lots of them)
- Invasive Species Weblog by Jennifer Forman Orth - The best invasives blog!
- Invasive Species Weblog gifts (hats, shirts, mugs, and more)
- List of Invasive Alien Species (IAS)
- Long Island Invasive Plant Management Plan (2002)
- Maps and Mapping
- Marine Bioinvasions - MIT Sea Grant
- Marine Nuisance Species - USGS
- Marine: National Exotic Marine and Estuarine Species Information System (NEMESIS) - SERC
- marineID - Marine Invader Database - NEANS
- Mid-Atlantic Exotic Pest Plant Council
- Mid-Atlantic Panel on Aquatic Invasive Species (MAPAIS)
- National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
- National Invasive Species Council
- National Invasive Species Information Center (NISIC)
- NOAA Research - Ocean, Coastal, and Great Lakes Invasives
- Nonindigenous Aquatic Species (NAS) - USGS
- North American Forest Commission Exotic Forest Pest Information System (NAFC-ExFor)
- North American Lake Management Society
- Northeast Aquatic Nuisance Species Panel
- Northeast Aquatic Plant Management Society
- Northeastern IPM Center
- Pest Tracker - NAPIS
- Plant Invaders of the Mid-Atlantic States
- Plant Smart
- Protect Your Waters
- Quality Parks
- Riparian Invasives Research Lab
- Sea Grant: National Aquatic Nuisance Species Clearinghouse
- Southeast Exotic Pest Plant Council
- Southern IPM Center
- The Northeast-Midwest Institute ecosystem team
- TNC Management Library - Plants
- USFWS Volunteer Training
- Vegetation Management Answers at BASF ProVM
- WeedUS
Subject Index
- Adirondacks (15)
- Agriculture Smart Trade Act (1)
- ailanthus (1)
- AIS (1)
- Alabama (1)
- American chestnut (1)
- Anglers (1)
- ant (1)
- APIPP (10)
- apple snail (1)
- Asian carp (2)
- Asian longhorned beetle (15)
- Asian oyster (2)
- Asian sand sedge (4)
- Asian swamp eel (1)
- ballast water (10)
- bamboo (3)
- barberry (1)
- baseball (1)
- bats (3)
- beach vitex (5)
- bees (1)
- BioBullies (1)
- biocontrol (2)
- bittersweet (2)
- bittervine (1)
- black ash (1)
- black swallowort (2)
- Boa (1)
- Brazilian pepper trees (4)
- Brazilian water-weed (5)
- Brookhaven (2)
- brown-tail moth (1)
- Bullhog (1)
- Burmese Python (2)
- cabomba (2)
- Canada (1)
- carp (5)
- Casuarina (3)
- Cat's claw vine (1)
- Cazenovia (2)
- Central Jersey Invasive Species Strike Team (1)
- Chesapeake Bay (1)
- chestnut (1)
- Chinese lespideza (1)
- Chinese mitten crab (6)
- CitSci (1)
- clam (1)
- climate change (4)
- Coast Guard (2)
- codium (1)
- cogon grass (3)
- common periwinkle (1)
- Connecticut (22)
- crayfish (3)
- CRISP (1)
- curly leaf pondweed (1)
- DAMM (2)
- dams (1)
- DASH (1)
- deer (10)
- Delaware (9)
- didymo (13)
- diquat (1)
- DVDs (1)
- EAB (13)
- earthworms (4)
- economics (3)
- EDRR (1)
- EEA (1)
- Egeria densa (1)
- elongate hemlock scale (1)
- emerald ash borer (29)
- Eurasian milfoil (10)
- Eurasian watermilfoil (10)
- faucet snail (1)
- feral cats (3)
- Florida (36)
- fluridone (1)
- fox (1)
- funding (1)
- galleon (1)
- garlic mustard (4)
- Georgia (10)
- GIST (1)
- glyphosate resistance (1)
- goats (6)
- golden algae (1)
- Great Lakes (10)
- Green crab (1)
- gypsy moth (3)
- H.R. 669 (1)
- hairy crazy ant (1)
- harvester (1)
- hemlock woolly adelgid (15)
- herbicide (1)
- Heterosiphonia japonica (1)
- hogweed (3)
- Hudson River (1)
- Hunters (1)
- hurricane (1)
- hydrilla (9)
- hygrophila (1)
- iMap (1)
- Invasipedia (1)
- Invasivpedia (1)
- IPANE (3)
- iphone (1)
- Japanese barberry (1)
- Japanese black pine (2)
- Japanese knotweed (2)
- Japanese stiltgrass (4)
- jellyfish (1)
- Kelly Church (1)
- knotweed (4)
- kudzu (9)
- kudzu bug (1)
- Lacey Act (1)
- lamprey (3)
- late blight (2)
- laurel wilt (2)
- legislation (1)
- LIISMA (1)
- LINGI (1)
- lionfish (2)
- Long Island (12)
- longhorned beetle (5)
- loons (1)
- Main (1)
- Maine (17)
- manatee (1)
- marine (1)
- marine industry (1)
- Maryland (16)
- Massachusetts (27)
- Mikania micrantha (1)
- mile-a-minute (10)
- monarch (1)
- monk parrot (5)
- monkeys (1)
- multiflora rose (2)
- Nassau County (6)
- National Forests (1)
- Native American (1)
- Neo (1)
- New Hampshire (18)
- New Jersey (18)
- New York (54)
- NFWF (1)
- nightshade (1)
- North Carolina (10)
- northern snakehead (4)
- Norway maple (3)
- nutria (1)
- oak wilt (1)
- Ohio (1)
- Old World climbing fern (1)
- palmer amaranth (1)
- parrot feather (1)
- partnerships (1)
- Pennsylvania (22)
- perennial pepperweed (7)
- phragmites (21)
- phramites (1)
- pike (1)
- Plant Smart (1)
- plum pox virus (1)
- Prenfish (1)
- prescribed fire (1)
- Princeton (1)
- PRISM (2)
- privet (1)
- Pseudomas fluorescens (1)
- Puerto Rico (2)
- purple loosestrife (7)
- python (1)
- quagga mussel (8)
- rabbits (1)
- red bay ambrosia beetle (1)
- red lionfish (1)
- Renovate (1)
- Rhode Island (7)
- rosyside dace (1)
- Rotenone (1)
- round goby (2)
- SE-EPPC (1)
- sea squirts (3)
- Senator Marcellino (1)
- shrimp (1)
- Sirex woodwasp (2)
- SLELO (1)
- Slender falsebrome (1)
- snail (2)
- snakes (1)
- SOD (1)
- soil (1)
- Solar Bee (2)
- South Carolina (7)
- spiny water flea (3)
- starlings (2)
- stink bugs (1)
- sudden oak death (1)
- sudden wetland dieback (1)
- Suffolk County (10)
- swallow-wort (2)
- swans (3)
- Tennessee (4)
- The Nature Conservancy (13)
- TNC (1)
- toothed wrack (1)
- triclopyr (1)
- tunicates (3)
- USACE (1)
- variable-leaf milfoil (11)
- vehicle washing systems (1)
- Vermont (18)
- VHS (2)
- violet tunicate (1)
- Virginia (6)
- walking catfish (1)
- Washington DC (1)
- water chestnut (9)
- water flea (1)
- water hyacinth (1)
- water lettuce (2)
- water primrose (2)
- watermilfoil (5)
- wavyleaf basketgrass (3)
- Weed It Now (1)
- Weeds Across Borders Conference 2010 (1)
- WeedUS (1)
- West Nile Virus (1)
- West Virginia (2)
- white-nose (1)
- white-nose syndrome (3)
- wild boar (4)
- WIMS (1)
- Winter moth (1)
- WRA (1)
- yellow flag (1)
- zebra mussel (20)
Photo of black swallowwort by Bill Jacobs, TNC
Videos
Gill Man!
Knotweed! and Gill Man! videos by Suzanne Blais and Black Dog Productions.
Little Green Parrots in Brooklyn
Meet the Beetles in Massachusetts
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Snakeheads in the Potomac River
Interview with an Emerald Ash Borer
