I can see reporting and managing invasive species

Why should I care?

For full effect, view the video ↖ above or to left by selecting the video image, then icons YouTube (if present), ⏯︎ ⊠ Skip Ads (if present), ㏄ captions (if you wish), ⛶ full­screen, and ▶︎ Play.

If you don't find compelling the above-described 💥︎ damage to the:
  •  🏞 environment,
  •  📉︎ economy and
  •   ⚕︎  human health,
and:
  •  threats to biodiversity,
perhaps you will value:
  •  invasive species coming into your area 📉︎ decrease property values, ^[1]
  •  removing invasive species 📈︎ increases property values, ^[1]  and
  •  planting native species 📈︎ increases property values. ^[2]

And if you don't find those reasons compelling, perhaps you will value:

[In the 🇬🇧 UK,] You must not plant in the wild or cause certain invasive and non-native plants to grow in the wild.  This can include moving contaminated soil or plant cuttings.  You can be fined [up to £5000] or sent to prison for up to 2 years. ^[3]

What can I do?  👟︎ Step 1:  Learn about and report your invasive species

🚸︎🚼︎ For kids!  Invasive species placemat series:   aquatic   camping   gardening   🚶︎ trail users. 

Learn about your invasive species from, and report them to your regional database:

• 🇨🇦 Canada
• 🇺🇸 USA     
• 🌎︎🌏︎🌍︎ Outside 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Canada and USA.  We don't know.  If you find out, please tell us using the button at the bottom of this page.  We will be happy to share that information with 👥︎ our community.

Please report your sighting!  Most systems have procedures to verify report from newbies, and provide 🏛 educational materials to learn more.  After you report your sighting to the database, the database will notify your local responsible agency, who will follow up with verification, treatment, monitoring and restoration.

🇨🇦 Canada:  Alberta

This area is handled by Alberta Invasive Species Council.

You can also report your sighting at MISIN, as in the MISIN section ↓ below.   They will get the information to your local agency, although not daily — it will be batched up into larger time-chunks.

🇨🇦 Canada:  Ontario

This area is handled by EDDMapS Ontario.

You can also report your sighting at MISIN, as in the MISIN section ↓ below.   They will get the information to your local agency, although not daily — it will be batched up into larger time-chunks.

USA West:  Alaska

This area is handled by Alaska Exotic Plant Information Clearinghouse.

You can also report your sighting at MISIN, as in the MISIN section ↓ below.   They will get the information to your local agency, although not daily — it will be batched up into larger time-chunks.

USA Midwest:  Indiana

This area is handled by Report IN.

You can also report your sighting at MISIN, as in the MISIN section ↓ below.   They will get the information to your local agency, although not daily — it will be batched up into larger time-chunks.

USA Midwest:  Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin

This area is handled by MISIN, the Midwest Invasive Species Information Network.   Among MISIN's functions:

Michigan's invasive species page
In West Michigan's Kent County

References

^[4]  Regarding these last two function groups, your actions may overlap your local:

• (🇺🇸 USA with federal lands in your jurisdiction) CWMA Cooperative Weed Management Area,
• (Michigan) CISMA Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area, or
• other agency.

   Please work with them to verify the report, and determine if it is an Early Detection species or in a high-quality area.
   If it does meet these criteria, continue with:

• treatment (perhaps using techniques in invasive.org/control ),
• monitoring, and
• restoration (including optional repopulation with native plants ).

USA Mid-Atlantic:  Delaware, District of Columbia DC, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia

This area is handled by Mid-Atlantic Early Detection Network MAEDN.

You can also report your sighting at MISIN, as in the MISIN section ↑ above.   They will get the information to your local agency, although not daily — it will be batched up into larger time-chunks.

USA Southeast:  Florida

This area is handled by Florida Invasive Species Partnership.

You can also report your sighting at MISIN, as in the MISIN section ↑ above.   They will get the information to your local agency, although not daily — it will be batched up into larger time-chunks.

Parts of 🇨🇦 Canada and 🇺🇸 USA not described above

🚧 Under construction.  I am told you can report your sighting at MISIN, as in the MISIN section ↑ above.   They will get the information to your local agency, although not daily — it will be batched up into larger time-chunks.

You can also use Early Detection and Distribution Mapping System EDDMapS.

If we find a better method, perhaps using some combination of Bugwood, invasive.org, EDDMapS.org (as in sections ↑ above) or EDDMapS.org/report, we will update this description.

🗺🛠 Mapping tools

Navigate to pages that link here

🏠︎ 🏠︎ home page sustainable landscaping and gardening with native plants invasive species in this web app   🏠︎ Eric Piehl comments on … 🌲︎ green (environmental) topics … West Michigan, in and around Kent County and Grand Rapids and:

• terrestrial 🌾︎⚶⚘ ☙ herbaceous plants:  garlic mustard  Alliaria petiolata narrowleaf bittercress  Cardamine impatiens spotted knapweed  Centaurea stoebe greater celandine poppy  Chelidonium majus creeping thistle or field thistle  Cirsium arvense 🇪🇺 ♒︎ European swamp thistle  Cirsium palustre ◼︎ black swallow-wort  Cynanchum louiseae ◼︎ pale swallow-wort  Cynanchum rossicum 🇨🇳 Chinese yam  Dioscorea polystachya 🇪🇺 European fireweed  Epilobium hirsutum winged burning bush  Euonymus alatus leafy spurge  Euphorbia esula Japanese knotweed  Fallopia japonica reed mannagrass  Glyceria maxima baby's breath  Gypsophila paniculata ⚠︎✋︎☠︎ giant 🐖︎ hogweed  Heracleum mantegazzianum ☠︎✋︎⚠︎ dame's rocket  Hesperis matronalis Japanese hops  Humulus japonicus lyme-grass  Leymus arenarius ◼︎ purple loosestrife  Lythrum salicaria ◼︎ 🍀︎ white sweet clover  Melilotus alba ◼︎ 🍀︎ yellow sweet clover  Melilotus officinalis Japanese stilt grass  Microstegium vimineum wild parsnip  Pastinaca sativa reed canarygrass  Phalaris arundinacea Eurasian phragmites  Phragmites australis ◼︎ Colorado blue spruce  Picea pungens mile-a-minute weed  Polygonum perfoliatum giant knotweed  Reynoutria sachalinensis climbing nightshade  Solanum dulcamara narrowleaf cattail  Typha angustifolia

• 🍄︎ fungus:  oak wilt disease (OWD)  Bretziella fagacearum
• 🐞︎🐛︎🐜︎🐝︎ insects:  hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA)  Adelges tsugae emerald ash borer (EAB)  Agrilus planipennis 🐝︎ spotted lanternfly (SLF)  Lycorma delicatula