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Department of Environmental Protection
Division of State Lands
Bureau of Invasive Plant Management
Upland Invasive Exotic Plant Management
Upland Invasive Exotic Plants on Upland Invasive Exotic Plants on Florida Public LandsFlorida Public Lands
13 million acres of public conservation lands13 million acres of public conservation lands 125 invasive species found on public lands 125 invasive species found on public lands
15% estimated infested15% estimated infested
legislative mandate to keep invasive plants atlegislative mandate to keep invasive plants at lowest feasible level – “maintenance” (369.252, FS)lowest feasible level – “maintenance” (369.252, FS)
many impossible to eradicatemany impossible to eradicate
Regional Working Groups
• PLACE- BASED MANAGEMENT
• Cooperation
• Collaboration
• Communication
• 11 regions
• 540 participants 27 federal 71 local
87 state 44 NGO
DEP PROJECT FUNDING CRITERIA
• Publicly owned conservation lands only
• Cost-share/matching funds available ($28million in cost share to date)
• Target species with high invasiveness
• Current control technologies available
• Benefit listed (T&E) species
• Perpetual site management
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Regional Working Groups
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Regional Contractors
• DEP has established service contracts with regional invasive plant control contractors (11), as well as 16 Local Gov’t contracts to further expand workforce.• The contractors are supervised by the land manager and paid directly by DEP• All ground crew supervisors to be FDACS certified in Natural Areas category•Yields a labor force of 300+
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Regional Contractors
Region VII Keys
LYGODIUM STRIKE TEAM
10 ACRES OR LESS ON PCL’S
Mr. Andrew Leslie Bureau coordinator (850)-245-2822 or by e-mail at:
CLIMBING FERNS(Lygodium species)
Estimated 250,000 AC pre-04 hurricanes
Airborne spores spread statewide
1998-2005 11,615 AC controlled (5% of total)
BIPM started ‘Strike Team’ 2004
What unmanaged Lygodium is doingto Everglades tree islands
HERBICIDE BANK
• Management Unit Name• Delivery Address• Description of Project Site• List herbicide/adjuvants and quantities you
need• Complete DPR to document how & when
material was utilized.• $750,000 & 170+ land management units
served!!!!
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Management Strategies
206.1(a) Florida Statute
“… the department shall allocate at least $1 million
… to the eradication of melaleuca
Melaleuca Program
MELALEUCA
1993 – 50% of melaleuca on public lands
2007 – 15% of melaleuca on public lands
Lake O – 20,000 acres infestation 1997 WCA ‘S – 690,000 total acres Big Cypress NP- 80,000 acres Everglades NP, Pennsucco, Estero Bay, Charlotte Harbor, Fakahatchee….Over 1 MILLION acres under Maintenance
PROJECT EX-LOX
• Loxahatchee Wildlife Refuge (120,000 ac)• 90,000 acres Melaleuca- largest contiguous
stand remaining in the northern hemisphere• Extensive Lygodium infestation• Aerial Melaleuca completed; lygodium
underway.• Ground crew ops will resume upon water
levels restored.
1 Million + acres on publicConservation lands 2005
Dense thickets exclude wildlife, alter fire regimes
1998 – 2007 277,611 AC controlled (22.5% of total)
BRAZILIAN PEPPER
1997-2007
• 1,000+ projects on 400 PCL units
• 702,000 acres initial & maint control
• 100 invasive species targeted
• $65 million DEP funds
• $29 million agency matching funds
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10-Y ear Program Results
BIPM Funding
Everglades CISMA Area
1997-2007 28 Projects
$14.1M 207,000 acres
(48% of SE & SW Funding)
2006-2007 4 Projects
$5.2M 45,319 acres
Public/Private Partnerships
• USFWS- Partners for Wildlife- funding for adjacent private lands: 78 agreements
• N.P.S.- Florida/ Caribbean Exotics Team• T.A.M.E. Melaleuca• USDA- biocontrol dissemination• NRCS- Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program
(WHIP)• ISWG- Private/Public Funding Matrix