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NISC Strategic Priorities:Intersections with
Regional and State Activities
The Guests that Won’t Leave:
How States Are Dealing with Invasive Species(NCSL Webinar, 15 May 2015)
Executive Order 13112 (February 1999)• Defined “Invasive Species”
– Not native to the ecosystem under consideration
– Whose introduction harms or is likely to harm to human health, the
economy, or the environment
• Established the National Invasive Species Council (NISC)
• Established the Invasive Species Advisory Committee (ISAC) under FACA
• Provided additional guidance
– Development of management plans
– Instructions to agencies to “do no harm”
NISC Background
Structure
NISC Background (cont.)
Program Staff
Invasive Species
Advisory
Committee
(ISAC)
Secretary of
Interior
NISC Co-Chairs
Secretary
of
Agriculture
Secretary of
Commerce
DOI Policy
Liaison
DOC
Policy
Liaison
USDA
Policy
Liaison NISC Executive
Director
NISC
Staff
NISC Members
Admin. of National
Aeronautics and
Space
Administration
Each NISC Member has a Policy Liaison
Secretary of
TransportationSecretary of
State
Admin. Of U.S.
Agency for
International
Development
Secretary of
Homeland
Security
Admin. Of U.S.
Environmental
Protection Agency
Secretary of
Health and
Human Services
U.S. Trade
Representative
Secretary of
Defense
Secretary of
Treasury
Management Plan (2008 – under revision)1. Prevention
2. Early Detection & Rapid Response
3. Control, Eradication & Rehabilitation
4. Coordination & Collaboration
NISC Background (cont.)
(Rodgers No
Date)
Pathways• Diagrams
• Development assistance
• Hydraulic fracturing
Prevention
Building Consensus in the West• Phoenix Workshop (2012) and ANSTF Quagga-Zebra
Action Plan (2010)
• State efforts
– Follow-up workshops (2013, 2014)
– Model legal framework
– State-by-state comparison
– Watercraft inspection and decontamination
• Federal efforts
– Training and outreach
– Funding for watercraft inspection and decontamination
– Federal Policy Options paper
Prevention (cont.)
Priority Agenda: Enhancing the Climate Resilience of America’s Natural Resources
• “the Secretary of the Interior, working with other members of NISC, including Department of Commerce (NOAA), the EPA, and the USDA, will work with states and tribes to develop a framework for a national Early Detection and Rapid Response (EDRR) program that will build on existing programs to assist states and tribes in forestalling the stress caused by the establishment and spread of additional invasive species populations, thereby improving the resilience of priority landscapes and aquatic areas. This will include the development of a plan for creating an emergency response fund to increase the capacity of interagency and inter-jurisdictional teams to tackle emerging invasive species issues across landscapes and jurisdictions.”
• Structure
– Federal working group
– Advisory group (ISAC EDRR Subcommittee)
Early Detection & Rapid Response (EDRR)
• Climate change:
Bioinvasions in a Changing World: A Resource on Invasive Species-Climate Change Interactions for Conservation and Natural Resource Managers
• Species specific work
– ANSTF management plans (QZAP, snakehead, lionfish)
– USDA feral swine
– Forest pests
• South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Task Force
– EDRR challenges (e.g., pythons)
– Crosscut budget
– Decision support tool
Control, Eradication and Rehabilitation
Regional efforts• Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
– EDRR tools (e.g., eDNA)
– GLC and partner efforts (e.g., webcrawler, comparison of state lists)
– Funding through EPA
• Pacific: Regional Biosecurity Plan for Micronesia & Hawaii
• Arctic
– Arctic National Strategy Implementation Plan
– Arctic Council US Chairmanship
Coordination & Collaboration
Outreach• National Invasive Species Awareness Week
• State-Invasives-L listserve (NCSL & NISC)
• Invasive species webinar series (ELI & NISC)
Coordination & Collaboration (cont.)
For additional information contact:
Stas Burgiel, Ph.D.
Asst. Director, Prevention & Budgetary Coordination
National Invasive Species Council (NISC)
T: 202.208.4163
Thank you!
