The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) Alaska Region is working with partners to implement a region-wide integrated pest management (IPM) strategy for terrestrial invasive plants, focused on managing small-scale infestations detected on Service lands and at critical access points off...
This Programmatic Environmental Assessment (EA) has been prepared by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) Alaska Region to help the Service select a strategy to manage terrestrial invasive plants in the Alaska, in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The...
Alaska has many natural and human vectors that could introduce AIS, including: boats, floatplanes, tourism, marine shipping and transport, wind, ocean currents, and warming climate. As such, even field work in the most remote, pristine part of Alaska could have AIS that has been introduced...
“Fewer people will want to visit the beauty that is Alaska if they come all the way up here only to see the same pile of weeds they have in their own backyard”. Pete Johnson makes a good point. He’s an agronomist with the Alaska Department of Natural Resources’ Division of Agriculture. Worldwide,...