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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.
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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
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Early Detection and Rapid Response (EDRR)• Warning system
– Interagency coordination– Rapid assessment– Rapid response
• USDA website
•http://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/toolkit/detection.shtml
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• 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
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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
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Invasive species list
•List found on SC EPPC website and within brochure
•Organized by severity, region, type of plant
•Recently updated
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Kudzu Coalition (non-chemical)
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• Betsy Brabson • Coordinator, SC BV Task Force• t: 843-546-9531• f: 843-436-0273• http://www.beachvitex.org/
Downloadable brochure
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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