[APWG] Long Island Native Plant Initiative to coordinate the Long Island Invasive Species Management Area (NY)

[De Angelis, Patricia]

(Excerpted and abridged from LINPI listserve message)

Exciting news from LINPI!

The Long Island Native Plant Initiative (LINPI) and its Board of Directors
are excited to announce that LINPI has been selected to coordinate the Long
Island Invasive Species Management Area (LIISMA) through July 2021 with
funding allocated by New York State's Environmental Protection Fund, and
administered by the Office of Invasive Species Coordination Unit of the New
York State Department of Environmental Conservation. In addition, LINPI is
pleased to announce that Ms. Joanne Klein has been appointed as the LIISMA
Coordinator for this cutting edge invasive species program.

The Long Island Native Plant Initiative (LINPI) is a non-profit
organization readily supported by volunteers, governmental agencies,
nursery professionals, and citizens that works to coordinate wildland seed
collection, banking, and plant production and public education on native
plants in order to establish commercial sources of genetically appropriate
local (ecotypic) plant materials for use in nursery, landscaping, and
habitat restoration activities.

To learn more about LINPI please visit www.LINPI.org, or contact us on
Facebook or by email at info at LINPI.org.

The Long Island Invasive Species Management Area (LIISMA) is a voluntary
partnership of many organizations from the geographic area that includes
Staten Island (Richmond County), all of Long Island (Kings [Brooklyn],
Queens, Nassau and Suffolk counties), and eleven additional coastal plain
islands and is one of eight PRISMs (Partnership for Regional Invasive
Species Management) that cover all of New York State.  Through invasive
species education and management, LIISMA strives to help conserve
biodiversity, wildlife habitat, recreation resources, scenic quality, and
crop production, while protecting human health and safety, by facilitating
cooperation and coordination among land owners and managers to reduce the
threat of human-introduced invasive species. One of the leading goals of
LIISMA is to reduce the impacts of invasive species by preventing and
eradicating new invasive species infestations before they become
established.

To learn more about LIISMA, please visit www.LIISMA.org or email us at
LIISMAPRISM at gmail.com.

We look forward to the exciting and new programming to come through this
joint partnership!

Polly Weigand
Executive Director
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