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National Invasive Species Awareness Week February 26 - March 3, 2012 Washington, DC A week of activities, briefings, workshops and events focused on strategizing solutions to address invasive species prevention, detection, monitoring, control, and management issues at local, state, tribal, regional, national and international scales. Here are 10 ways to observe NISA Week . Learn more at link . -------------------------------------------------------- Florida considers controversial cure for polluted Lake Apopka: Let hydrilla spread By Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel 9:17 p.m. EST, January 22, 2012 The sickly Lake Apopka has been healing at a snail's pace despite undergoing some of the more costly environmental rehabilitations in Florida history. So a state agency is thinking about speeding up the process by encouraging an aggressive, aquatic weed — hydrilla — to take root in the lake. It's a hotly contested idea that appears to be leaving little room for compromise. Those who want...

Sag Harbor, New York Withdraws Bamboo Ban Posted on 16 December 2011 Following both praise and criticism by Sag Harbor residents over a proposed law that would have banned bamboo in the village, on Tuesday night the Sag Harbor Village Board of Trustees voted to withdraw the legislation from consideration. “I have been talking to different people and I think the best thing to do is to advise people not to plant invasive species,” said trustee Robby Stein, first suggesting the proposed legislation be tabled and then suggesting it be withdrawn completely. The rest of the village board supported Stein unanimously, including Sag Harbor Mayor Brian Gilbride. The legislation was originally introduced in September after the village board heard the pleas of resident Pat Field this summer. Field said she has done almost everything imaginable in an effort to kill bamboo spreading onto her Madison Street property from a neighbor’s yard. The bamboo, said Field, was threatening her very home. Origin...