The six national and regional weed science societies joined over 35 other organizations in a letter to House and Senate Appropriations Committee leaders with recommendations for FY 2022 invasive species management funding levels. The recommendations total over $350 million above FY 2021 spending levels and cover all taxa of invasive species at USDA, Interior, EPA, Army Corps, NOAA, and NASA. Invasive species management efforts are extremely underfunded, especially in the Department of the Interior. For example, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) only spends approximately $15 million per year for invasive species management activities on its 245 million acres that it manages. That is only 6 cents per acre for invasive species prevention, research, early detection/rapid response (EDRR), control, restoration and education.
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