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• A Hunt for Seeds to Save Species, Perhaps by Helping Them Move

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  FLOWERING Native plants like black-eyed Susans are growing in what had been a vacant Chicago lot.
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• 15,000 reasons to worry about invasive species

  
  Alan Gregory's Conservation News — Authority: 127
  Ouch. It hurts just to read this feature
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• Feral Pigs Invading Allegany State Park

  
  New York Outdoors Blog — Authority: 139
  by Gary Borek via the FLT email list: The DEC has confirmed that feral pigs (wild boar) are invading Allegany State Park. Park Manager Brad Whitcomb is concerned wild hogs could gain a foothold in the park and damage the local ecosystem the way they have in parts of the South. “When they go to the wild they ...
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• Invasive species not so bad?

  
  Denim and Tweed — Authority: 418
  Over on Slate , Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow says some conservation biologists are starting to question the importance of preventing species invasions: Certainly, they say, non-native plants and critters can be terribly destructive—the tree-killing gypsy moth comes to mind. Yet natives such as the Southern Pine Beetle ...
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• Green Immigrant Leaf Weevil

  
  The Backyard Arthropod Project — Authority: 106
  This beetle was photographed back in August. I’m not sure whether to classify this as a “found in house” or “found in yard”, because this particular one was hanging out on the doorjam and was most likely trying to get in when it died there. Most summers, we get significant eruptions of them, although [...]
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• Mexico, U.S., Canada to protect wilderness across borders

  
  NatGeo News Watch — Authority: 131
  Canada, Mexico, and the United States have become the first countries to agree formally to cooperate on wilderness conservation measures across a continent, Mexicos President Felipe Calderón announced. Calderón made the announcement of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Cooperation for Wilderness Conservation ...
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• Save seeds to protect ash trees from the ash borer

  
  Granite Geek — Authority: 134
  Ash seeds The U.S. Department of Agriculture, fearing that the emerald ash borer will be unstoppable, has started a volunteer National Ash Tree Seed Collection Initiative , for people to collect ash-tree seeds that can be stored at the National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation in Fort Collins, Colo. ...
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• Volunteers Work to Save Ash Trees

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 789
  7.5 billion ash trees are endangered in the United States. (Photo credit Elizabeth Flores, Star Tribune) The culprit is the well-known emerald ash borer , an invasive Asian beetle that first arrived in Michigan seven years ago.  The infestation has spread to Ohio, Canada, and now Minnesota, threatening to do a log ...
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• Invasive Species Tire of Bad Press; Sue

  
  The Blogs at HowStuffWorks ScienceStuff — Authority: 121
  Invasive species are gotten tired of all the bad press and have finally appealed to the U.S. judicial system for respite. Until I read Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow’s “Don’t Sweat the Invasion” post on Slate , I, too, was a hater. In my defense, as an amateur gardener and resident of the South,* it’s hard to like ...
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• Congress weighs ban on importation of pet pythons

  
  NatGeo News Watch — Authority: 131
  Prompt action is needed at the federal level to limit the number of invasive pythons released into the wild, South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) Deputy Executive Director George Horne said in written testimony to the U.S. Congress today. The House of Representatives Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism ...
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• An invasive species problem we don’t have: Feral camels!

  
  Granite Geek — Authority: 134
  I can’t find anything local this morning, so let’s go just about as far away as possible*: Central Australia, where the feisty Alice Springs News reports that officials are battling a huge problem with feral camels! They were brought in a century ago in an attempt to replicate the camel trains of the Arabian ...
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• 37 pythons taken in Fla. hunt

  
  Alan Gregory's Conservation News — Authority: 127
  This is good news for wildlife officials hoping to stem the ongoing incursion into Florida of a major invasive species.
  6 days ago

• Valuation of Marine Ecosystem Threshold Effects: Application of Choice Experiments to Value Algal Bloom in the Black Sea Coast of Bulgaria

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 484
  http://opus.bath.ac.uk/15971/1/0709.pdf Abstract: Algal bloom arises in part from anthropogenic emissions of nutrients into the coastal zone. Increased interest in water quality in coastal and marine areas stemming from the Water Framework Directive and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive leads to important ...
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• National Briefing | South: Florida: Wild Pythons Are Caught

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Expert snake hunters snared 37 pythons in South Florida during a trial hunting season to eradicate the invasive species.
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• CBP Agriculture Specialists in Florida Halt Dangerous Pests

  
  Import Industry News — Authority: 147
  During October, U.S. Customs and Border Protection ( CBP ) agriculture specialists at Port Everglades made numerous interceptions of pests within shipments at the port. On Oct. 5, during a routine cargo container inspection, agriculture specialists at Port Everglades intercepted a weevil within a shipment of fresh ...
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• Invasives still major concern

  
  Apostle Islands Navigator — Authority: 452
  MILWAUKEE (WPR)  Even with new clean-up money on the way, scientists continue to worry about invasive species in the Great Lakes.Congress has agreed to spend $475-million on a Great Lakes restoration plan over the next year.   But some worry the money won’t be as effective as it could be without tougher federal ...
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• Eat Lionfish and Stop These Caribbean Reef Invaders

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 545
  My husband returns to the same reefs every year in the Bahamas, where he has been teaching a coral reef ecology class for the last 14 years. On his 2008 trip, he noticed that the reef fish were missing . The culprits were quickly identified — and during his 2009 course, he and his students were eating them. ...
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• Scary Ladybug in the LJ This Week

  
  Walking the Berkshires — Authority: 460
  Just in time for Halloween: the invasion of the harlequin ladybug!  Readable here with free subscription. " Theseare not the sweet, friendly red-and-black ladybugs of childhood memory,the benign foe of aphids, the farmer’s friend. They are an alienspecies with rusty orange shells, once intentionally ...
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• Feral Pigs in NY Allegeny State Park

  
  North Country Trail News — Authority: 421
  feral pig (photo from National Forest Law Blog) if you like this article, click the Blip chiclet! based on a posting in the FLT e-group, original source uncertain The NY Department of Environmental Cconservation has confirmed that feral pigs (wild boar) are invading Allegany State Park. A road crew saw ...
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• Defining genetically modified organisms as invasive and alien species

  
  Surviving the Middle Class Crash — Authority: 117
  Alien plant species, also known as genetically modified organisms, were engineered and introduced into natural environments specifically designed to spread rapidly. Because they are so uncontrollable and engineered to be aggressive, these aberrations of science gone mad rapidly overtake naturally occurring ecosystems ...
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