National Park Service Biological Resource Management Division

National Park Service
Biological Resource Management Division

Exotic Plant Management Teams

Alaska Mid-Atlantic Worthington Glacier, AK - Photo by Judy Daniels
Cooperative
California
National Capital
Chihuanuan Desert/Southern Region
Shortgrass Prairie
North Coast
Cascades Network

Colorado Plateau Northeast

Florida/Caribbean Partnership Northern Great Plains

Great Lakes Northern Rockies

Gulf Pacific
Coast Islands

Lake Mead Southeast

Haleakala NP, Maui - Photo by Judy Daniels

National Park Service
Biological Resource Management Division

Northeast Exotic Plant Management Team

Betsy Lyman, Liaison Brian McDonnell, Crew Leader

National Park Service
Biological Resource Management Division

National Park Service
Biological Resource Management Division

Northeast Japanese Stiltgrass

Top Ten
•SpeJcapieasnese Knotweed

• Garlic Mustard
• Japanese Stiltgrass
• Autumn Olive
• Oriental Bittersweet
• Bush Honeysuckles

(several species)
• Tree-of-Heaven
• Japanese Barberry
• Purple Loosestrife
• Phragmites (Common

Reed)
• Black Swallow-wort

National Park Service
Biological Resource Management Division

Northeast

Histor
™y The Northeast EPMT is in its formative

stages, with the Liaison starting at the end of
August and the Crew Leader at the
beginning of November in 2003.
™ However, the Team will be up and running
with a field crew for the 2004 field season.
™ The Team will be covering ground from
Pennsylvania north through New England,
always returning to their home base at the
Delaware Water Gap National Recreation

Area.

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Biological Resource Management Division

Northeast Purple Loosestrife Phragmites

Japanese Barberry Autumn Olive

Japanese Knotweed

Garlic Mustard
Pictures by John M. Randall & Barry A. Rice, The Nature Conservancy

National Park Service

Biological Resource Management Division

Northeast

Partner Parks

• ALLEGHENY PORTAGE RAILROAD NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE (ALPO), PA
• APPALACHIAN NATIONAL SCENIC TRAIL (APPA), THE WHOLE EASTERN US
• BOSTON HARBOR ISLANDS NATIONAL RECREATION AREA (BOHI), MA
• CAPE COD NATIONAL SEASHORE (CACO), MA
• DELAWARE WATER GAP NATIONAL RECREATION AREA (DEWA), PA & NJ
• FIRE ISLAND NATIONAL SEASHORE (FIIS), NY
• FORT NECESSITY NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD (FONE), PA
• FRIENDSHIP HILL NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE (FRHI), PA
• GATEWAY NATIONAL RECREATION AREA (GATE), NY & NJ
• HOPEWELL FURNACE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE (HOFU), PA
• MARSH-BILLINGS NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK (MABI), VT
• MINUTE MAN NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK (MIMA), MA
• JOHNSTOWN FLOOD NATIONAL MEMORIAL (JOFL), PA
• MORRISTOWN NATIONAL HISTORIC PARK (MORR), NJ
• ROOSEVELT-VANDERBILT NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES (ROVA), NY
• SAGAMORE HILL NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE (SAHI), NY
• SAINT-GAUDENS NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE (SAGA), NH
• SARATOGA NATIONAL HISTORIC PARK (SARA), NY
• UPPER DELAWARE SCENIC AND RECREATIONAL RIVER (UPDE), PA & NY
• VALLEY FORGE NATIONAL HISTORIC PARK (VAFO), PA
• WEIR FARM NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE (WEFA). CT