Talk:Invasive species in the United States

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Improving this page
As part of the wiki project on U.S. public policy, my teammates and I from IU-SPEA are going to update this page. We're going to add sections on policies, their effects, and the costs of invasive species and the policies meant to control them. We'll be posting sources we intend to use here, any input is appreciated! Bkmertz (talk) 15:27, 3 March 2011 (UTC)


 * I think some important polices to include are regulations (highlighting some state regulations in addition to federal regulations). I am specifically thinking of ballast discharge and official prevention measures like the Asian Carp Fence. This information from US Fish and Wildlife might be helpful. To recap we should highlight major regulations like ballast water, important of horticulture plants, and exotic pets. Plus we want to talk about any economic impacts of major species like zebra mussels and Asian Carp and Honeysuckle and a number of others. The ones I know are very midwest so we should make sure we touch the whole country. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jthebooknerd87 (talk • contribs) 02:29, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

some template
Hi, guys:

I think Invasive species in Australia page did a great job to demonstrate and list the invasive species. Why don't we modify it and use it as our template? And we can ask other similar page to use the template. Also I found National Invasive Species Information Center (NISIC) of USDA may be a comprehensive and reliable source for us~

Tian - agreed. the Australia site is well done. the NISIC data will be helpful. I think we should focus less on listing species (or keep lists short) and more on the policies used and their effectiveness. Maybe divide it into ecoregions, i.e. Rocky Mountains, Great Lakes, Eastern U.S., Appalachians, Florida, Hawaii, etc.

This article "Biological invasions: recommendations for U.S. policy and management" should be another possibility looking at the effectiveness of U.S. policies.

Other sources for us to consider: Olson, Lars. The Economics of Terrestrial Invasive Species: A Review of the Literature. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 35/1 (April 2006) 178–194 http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/10181/1/35010178.pdf

David Pimentel, Rodolfo Zuniga and Doug Morrison. Update on the environmental and economic costs associated with alien-invasive species in the United States. Ecological Economics Volume 52, Issue 3, 15 February 2005, Pages 273-288 -- have to be IU student to access online.

M. Livingston. Integrating Invasive Species Prevention and Control Policies. USDA. 2008. http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/EB11/EB11.pdf — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bkmertz (talk • contribs) 04:56, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Bkmertz (talk) 01:55, 4 March 2011 (UTC) --TiMkOk (talk) 20:44, 3 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Great info. I like putting information by Ecoregions. It'd be a good way to be sure we touch major implications (as well as a mention of specific species). Jthebooknerd87 (talk) 02:32, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

My apologies to everyone for being slow to get back to everyone. I think the Invasive species of Australia page presents a fairly good format in terms of how to approach this page. There are - from my experience - one of three ways you could structure this page. Hope this helps! Cam (Chat)(Prof) 16:47, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
 * 1 - Structure it as talking about invasive plant species first in terms of what they are, where they are, and what regulations are in place to deal with them. This is somewhat similar to how the Australia page is structured, except that I would restructure it in terms of putting all the regulations for all invasive animal species (fish, insects, whatever) at the end of that section. Do likewise for the invasive plant species.
 * 2 - talk about all invasive species and sort of mention - in passing - the regulations in place to deal with them, and then go into lavish detail about the regulations in their own section at the very end of the article.
 * 3 - one of the strategies I've often used in terms of figuring out how to structure my articles is looking at how leading academic sources on the issue (that are comprehensive) structure it. For example when I was helping plan a rewrite of World War I we agreed upon a structure loosely outlined in H.P. Wilmott's The First World War. I'm not entirely sure how well this approach would work in the case of this topic, given that more single-comprehensive sources exist in the world of military history than in environmental policy. That being said I would look into that option; if you find a source that treats the subject comprehensively you can easily copy its structure in terms of outlining the article's.

Information about the state of Louisiana
I added that the United States spends an estimated $1 billion in recovery of the invasive Formosan termite. ( http://is.cbr.tulane.edu/LouisianaHotSpot.html) I also created a sub-section under the list of Invasive Species by State to include the state of Louisiana. Kralph1 (talk) 15:42, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

I linked species that I mentioned in my contribution to their respective wikipedia pages. Kralph1 (talk) 14:55, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

Feedback: I think the information that you added was good and did not plagiarize. However, I would clarify what the "Dirty Dozen" is under the Louisiana section. Careschroeder (talk) 19:10, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

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Content restored to Invasive species by state
This edit in 2016 removed some state subsections that had been erroneously moved to a duplicate External links section. Those subsections should have been moved back under Invasive species by state. I've done so now. Declangi (talk) 21:44, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

I have one complaint
This needs to update invasive species in north america or give a map range of the large animals that could cause a problem for people. There is a Texas government web site saying there's wild Thompson gazelle in the state, And a large amount of animals not listed for north america. And also give a location of where these animals might be. Lets say an animal like nilgai which WikipediA has Written about being in the state of Texas give an idea of where its having an specific animal like a subspecies of gray wolf and not saying where there from. Or this web site should have maybe which species might be more likely to be dangerous to human beings in north american invasive species or maybe give ways how to handle these kinds of animals like the Nile crocs ever expanding population in the everglades and animal quite different from american alligators and can be much more dangerous. Its Insane that you don't list ways of how to deal or be around these animals safely. And maybe have near by areas have an invasive warning when those animals populations expand. lets take the Warthogs in Texas right now no one is hunting or being in the way of these animals so there non native range is most likely expanding into near by areas like Louisiana,Arkansas,Oklahoma, and the mexican states Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipa Which have all ready have the expanding warthog population enter there country. Or the capybara in Florida. Most people from the parts of the state which have the Giant rodents have never seen or heard of the animal in there lives. Or The Hearst Ranch which have a have a last recorded to have around 126 in 2019 Wild Zebra Population which right now do not have as much of a problem with cars or people And is currently the one speices of animal that can go over 300 hundred miles from that distance is at least from Rochester New york to Canada to Quebec, Gatineau. So the least this web site can do is to change a few things about the current non native animals north america list.--2603:9000:7017:1600:40E0:4535:9B4B:31E6 (talk) 22:15, 14 May 2020 (UTC) here the sources I used just to name a few. s https://www.outdoorlife.com/photos/gallery/hunting/2011/02/invaders/,https://www.sunnysports.com/blog/capybara-florida-another-invasive-species-sunshine-state/,https://www.fws.gov/refuge/Lower_Rio_Grande_Valley/resource_management/exotic_invasive_wildlife.html,https://tpwd.texas.gov/education/hunter-education/online-course/wildlife-conservation/exotic-species,http://www.weirdca.com/location.php?location=1048,https://www.newsweek.com/nile-crocodile-florida-study-463598, — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:9000:7017:1600:40E0:4535:9B4B:31E6 (talk)

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