board of directors president: john brubaker vice president: pat layton, department head, college of...

Board of Directors• President: John Brubaker • Vice President: Pat Layton, Department Head, College of Forestry and Natural

Resources, Clemson• Treasurer/Membership: Colette Degarady, The Nature Conservancy • Secretary: Alex Gregg, National Park Service •

• Members-at-Large:• Sudie Daves - Biologist, NRCS • Helen Legree Floyd –Nursery Industry• Travis Rogers - Dow AgroSciences• Brett Moule, SCDNR • David Bourgeois, Mead Westvaco• Bill Hulslander, National Park Service • Laurie Reid, SC Forestry Commission • Robin Mackie, USFS

Diverse assemblage of board members representing different partners in the state.

SC EPPC Committees

• Early Detection Rapid Response

• Education/Outreach and Web Site Updates

• Invasive Plant Mapping Data Coordination

• Chinese Privet Control Task Force

• Kudzu Control Task Force

• SC Invasive Species Plant List

Early Detection and Rapid Response (EDRR)• Warning system

– Interagency coordination– Rapid assessment– Rapid response

• USDA website

•http://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/toolkit/detection.shtml

• Worst Invasive Plant in Southeast

• Federally Noxious Weed

• SC Statewide Cogongrass survey, May 15-18– Sponsored by SC-EPPC– http://www.clemson.edu/for/cogon_home.html– More than 100 volunteers search across the state

Cogongrass

SC Invasive Data Coordinator• Contract position using pooled partner funds• Will assemble and organize invasive plant data

across the state• Will train agency staff on entering data into

EDDMapS

Invasive species list

•List found on SC EPPC website and within brochure

•Organized by severity, region, type of plant

•Recently updated

Kudzu Coalition (non-chemical)

• Betsy Brabson • Coordinator, SC BV Task Force• t: 843-546-9531• f: 843-436-0273• http://www.beachvitex.org/

Downloadable brochure

SC EPPC to host SE-EPPC Symposium 2009!

• May 13-15

• Georgetown, South Carolina– Great coastal location, near Charleston and

Myrtle Beach

• A number of invasive species in various habitats available for in-field training sessions