News Articles:

• 6/14/03 Times Record News: Fear of Asian carps in the Great Lakes
• 6/12/03 The Durango Herald: Bill attacks water-guzzler tamarisk
• 6/11/03 Contra Costa Times: Non-native plants use roads as pathways, scientists find
• 6/8/03 Pensacola News Journal: State agriculture leader: Invasive species a major threat
• 6/5/03 The Greenville News: Exotic pests costing the U.S. billions of dollars annually
• 5/31/03 CTV: Lampreys jeopardize Great Lakes’ trout population
• 5/30/03 Litchfield County Times: These Out-Of-State Invaders Aren’t Growing on Legislators
• 5/24/03 Pacific Business News: Hawaii Invasive Species Council to be established
• 8/05/02 Concord Monitor: State could add more invasive plants to list  
• May-June 2002 E Magazine: Going, Going…Exotic species are decimating America’s native wildlife
• 9/27/01 ABC News: Some Species Aren’t Welcome
• 5/23/01 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: State to fight invasive species  

• 5/22/03 Chicago Department of Environment: Summit generates possible solutions to exchange of invasive species in Midwest waterways
• 7/10/02 Oregon Dept. of Agriculture: Invasive Species Council releases list of “nasty 100”
• 7/10/02 Union of Concerned Scientists: Homeland Security Department Could Open Floodgates to Biological Invaders: 120 Scientists Warn of Invasions of Harmful Pests and Weeds as Senate Committee Readies Roundtable  
• 2/02/99 U.S. Depts. of Interior, Agriculture, and Commerce: President Clinton Expands Federal Effort to Combat Invasive Species
• 1/25/01 National Governors Association: Great Lakes Governors Fund Invasive Species Initiative

3/5/02 Governor Dirk Kempthorne:  Remarks to the inaugural meeting of the Idaho Invasive Species Council