Reprinting Nonnative Invasive Plants of Southern Forests
PARTNERS: USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station
SUMMARY: Invasions of nonnative plants into forests of the southern United States continue to go unchecked and unmonitored. Invasive nonnative plants infest under and beside forest canopies and dominate small forest openings, increasingly eroding forest productivity, hindering forest use and management activities, and degrading diversity and wildlife habitat. Often called nonnative, exotic, nonindigenous, alien, or noxious weeds, they occur as trees, shrubs, vines, grasses, ferns, and forbs. Jim Miller’s Nonnative Invasive Plants of Southern Forests, originally published in 2003, provides information on accurate identification and effective control of the 33 nonnative plants and groups that are currently invading the forests of the 13 Southern States, showing both growing and dormant season traits. It lists other nonnative plants of growing concern, control strategies, and selective herbicide application procedures. Recommendations for preventing and managing invasions on a specific site include maintaining forest vigor with minimal disturbance, constant surveillance and treatment of new unwanted arrivals, and finally rehabilitation following eradication.
EFETAC'S ROLE: EFETAC provided funding for this project.
STATUS: Completed
PROGRESS: Nonnative Invasive Plants of Southern Forests has been updated for 2007. Fifty-five thousand copies of the book (General Technical Report-SRS-062), reprinted for the fifth time in four years, are now available. Jim Miller expects to make a major revision to the book, adding new species and control measures.
LINKS:
Nonnative Invasive Plants of Southern Forests
CONTACT: Southern Research Station Publications, pubrequest@fs.fed.us
Updated May 2010
