2003-2004 - Florida Invasive Species Partnership

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Florida lies in three climatic zones, tropical, sub-tropical, and temperate, and thus possesses a wide array of natural communities. Unfortunately, invasive exotic plants have found their way into every natural habitat from coastal beach dunes (above left) to interior pine flatwoods (below left). Fortunately, the Upland Invasive Plant Management Program possesses the ability to control invaders wherever they are found (above and below right). 2
The Upland Invasive Exotic Plant Management (Upland Weeds) Program was established within the bureau in 1997. To implement its statewide cooperative strategy, the Upland Weeds program formed Regional Invasive Plant Working Groups (working groups) comprised of federal, state and local government agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and other interested stakeholders, in 11 areas of the state and encompassing all of Florida's 67 counties. The Upland Weeds Program funds individual invasive exotic plant control projects on public conservation lands throughout the state, based upon the recommendations from the working groups. The Upland Weeds Program melds these regional priorities into an integrated process that provides the needed support infrastructure (e.g., control method development, research results, public education, technology transfer, policy, oversight, and funding) to conduct an efficient and cost-effective statewide control program. Funding for the Upland Invasive Exotic Plant Management Program is provided through the Invasive Plant Management Trust Fund as set forth in Section 369.252(4), Florida Statutes, which reads: “Use funds in the Invasive Plant Control Trust Fund as authorized by the Legislature for carrying out activities under this section on public lands. Twenty percent of the amount credited to the Invasive Plant Control Trust Fund pursuant to §201.15(6) shall be used for the purpose of controlling nonnative, upland, invasive plant species on public lands.” The trust fund provided nearly $7 million to fund upland weed control projects for Fiscal Year 2004. As addressed in the DEP 2000-2005 Agency Strategic Plan, the long-term program goal is to reduce infestations of upland invasive exotic plants on public lands by twenty-five percent by 2010, based on estimated 1995 levels of 1.5 million acres. The 2001 Upland Invasive Exotic Plant Management Program Strategic Plan sets forth specific strategies to implement the program’s long-term goal. These strategies include: ♦ Implement an integrated control program that uses chemical, mechanical, and biological control technologies. Modify implementation procedures as appropriate to specific public lands to assure the greatest protection for natural systems; ♦ Improve the general public’s awareness, sensitivity, and responsiveness to the values of natural systems and the threat of loss of biological diversity from invasive plants, by developing and promoting a comprehensive educational program; ♦ Inventory and map the distribution of invasive exotic plant species through use of a Geographic Information System database by the year 2010; and, ♦ Research the introduction and use of appropriate biological control agents and provide procedures and facilities for their cultivation, dissemination, and evaluation including monitoring and field assessments by the year 2010. Melaleuca and Brazilian pepper are two well known weeds in Florida, once covering more than one million acres of public conservation lands. The Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council (FLEPPC) lists 67 exotic plants found on public conservation lands as Category I pest plants and another 60 species as Category II. FLEPPC Category I species are those known to have damaged natural areas, while Category II species are not yet implicated in direct damage to ecosystems. Often, there may be a long lag time (years or decades) before an exotic species shows its true colors. Plants like Old World climbing fern (Lygodium microphyllum) and air-potato (Dioscorea bulbifera) have expanded their range in recent years. Like melaleuca in the mid-1990s, these and other plants are on the verge of overwhelming parks and forests across the state. 3
Page 1 and 2: Upland Invasive Exotic Plant Manage
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Page 5 and 6: Executive Summary Over one million
Page 7: Introduction Florida’s Upland Inv
Page 11 and 12: Old World Climbing Fern - New World
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Page 15 and 16: East Central Regional Working Group
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Page 23 and 24: Shingle Creek Recreational Preserve
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Page 27 and 28: Geneva Wilderness Area County: Semi
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Eglin Air Force Base Target Plants
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Apalachicola River Water Management
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Blackwater River State Forest A GIS
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Lake Jackson Mounds State Archeolog
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Southeast Regional Working Group Th
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John U. Lloyd Beach State Park A de
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Big Cypress National Preserve Count
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Matheson Hammock Park 67 Plants Tre
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Model Lands Basin County: Miami-Dad
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71 Comparison of 2003 (before proje
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Southern Glades Wildlife and Enviro
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Loxahatchee Slough Natural Area Cou
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J.W. Corbett Wildlife Management Ar
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Australian pines tower over other c
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Collier-Seminole/Fakahatchee Strand
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Rookery Bay National Estuarine Rese
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Big Hickory Island Preserve County:
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Estero Bay Preserve State Park Coun
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Cayo Costa State Park (Barrier Isla
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Alafia River State Park County: Hil
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Bower Tract Preserve County: Hillsb
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Rocky Creek Nature Preserve 102 Mel
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Egmont Key National Wildlife Refuge
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Little Manatee River State Park Cou
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Robinson Preserve County: Manatee P
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Terra Ceia State Buffer Preserve Co
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Myakka River State Park 112 Cogon g
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Ft. De Soto Park County: Pinellas P
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Lake Seminole Park 116
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Jonathan Dickinson State Park Count
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120 Jonathan Dickinson State Park C
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122 Seabranch Preserve State Park C
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124 Hungryland Wildlife and Environ
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Hungryland Wildlife and Environment
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Bluefield Natural Area County: St.
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Indrio Savannahs Natural Area Count
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Blind Creek Park County: St. Lucie
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West Central Regional Working Group
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Fisheating Creek Wildlife Managemen
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Okaloacoochee Slough State Forest 1
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Avon Park Air Force Range County: H
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Highlands Hammock State Park County
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Lake Louisa State Park County: Lake
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Circle B Bar Reserve County: Polk P
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Withlacoochee Regional Working Grou
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Loblolly Woods County: Alachua PCL
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Crystal River Preserve State Park C
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Withlacoochee State Forest County:
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Hernando County Lands County: Herna
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Waccasassa Bay Preserve State Park
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Silver River State Park County: Mar
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Melaleuca Program Melaleuca was bro
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Program Expenditures—BIPM provide
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Charlotte Harbor/Myakka River Using
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National Park Service Projects The
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Big Cypress National Preserve Count
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Contract Assistance Other state age
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Tarkiln Bayou/Big Lagoon County: Es
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Allen David Broussard Catfish Creek
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