North Central Research Station

Annual Trends for Forest Service Issues in the News - Invasives

Invasives captures news media discussion of invasive species in the context of the Forest Service, including general discussion (e.g., aggressive weeds, alien species, aquatic weeds), terrestrial plants (e.g., buckthorn, Canada thistle, canary grass), terrestrial animals (e.g., Africanized honeybee, woolly adelgid, emerald ash borer), aquatic and wetland plants (e.g., milfoil, purple loosestrife, water chestnut), aquatic and wetland animals (e.g., alewife, Asian carp, Asian swamp eel), and microbes (e.g., blister rust, butternut canker, chestnut blight). Information about the Forest Service Invasive Species Research Program can be found at http://www.fs.fed.us/invasivespecies/.