ANS UPDATE

Great Lakes Commission  http://www.glc.org/
Great Lakes Panel on Aquatic Nuisance Species  http://www.glc.org/ans/anspanel.html
This panel is directed to identify Great Lakes priorities; assist/make recommendations to a national Task Force on Aquatic Nuisance Species; coordinate exotic species program activities in the region; advise public and private interests on control efforts; and submit an annual report to the task force describing prevention, research and control activities in the Great Lakes Basin.

 ANS Update: News from the Great Lakes Panel on Aquatic Nuisance Species
   http://www.glc.org/ans/ansupdate/ansupdate.html
The ANS Update is the quarterly newsletter of the Great Lakes Panel on Aquatic Nuisance Species. Newsletters that are designated as portable document format (PDF) files can be viewed using Adobe Acrobat Reader.    

2000

  Winter/Spring 2000 

Article on a research agenda for the Great Lakes on ballast water management and aquatic nuisance species. Additionally, this issue includes news from around the basin and updates on the Great Lakes Panel and national ANS Task Force.

1999

  Fall/Winter 1999    A Quantitative Approach to Predict Potential Nonindigenous Aquatic Plant Species Problems
  Summer/Fall 1999   National Voluntary ANS Guidelines: A Strategy to Interrupt Recreational Pathways of Spread
  Spring/Summer 1999   Model Guidance on ANS Legislation, Regulation and Policy: A Step Forward in the Prevention and  Control of Great Lakes Biological Invaders
  Winter/Spring 1999   The Executive Order on Invasive Species

1998
  Fall/Winter 1998/1999     National Aquatic Nuisance Species Policy and the 106th Congress
  Summer/Fall 1998   Dramatic Changes in Benthic Macroinvertebrate Populations in Southern Lake Michigan
  Spring/Summer 1998   Surveillance of Ruffe in the Great Lakes
  Winter 1998   Ballast Water Research Explores Potential of Glutaraldehyde in Prevention of ANS Introductions

1997
  Fall 1997   An ANS Dispersal Barrier for the Great Lakes and Mississippi River Basins
  Summer 1997   Panel Announces Legislative, Action Plan Projects
  Spring 1997  Panel Releases I/E Inventory and Recommendations
  Winter 1997   Six Ways You Can Help Assure Successful Implementation of NISA

1996
  Fall 1996   Panel Releases ANS Research Guidance and Inventory
  Summer 1996   Ballast Technology Demonstration Project
  Spring 1996   The Round Goby: Innocent Until Proven Guilty?
  Winter 1996   Zebra Mussels Cost Great Lakes Water Users an Estimated $120 Million

1995
  Fall 1995   Control of the Ruffe: An Urgent Great Lakes Challenge
  May 1995   Ecological Impacts of Zebra Mussels in Saginaw Bay
  February 1995   State Management Plans: Setting the Stage for Implementation

1994
  November 1994   Fighting the Spread of Purple Loosestrife
  August 1994   Introducing the Great Lakes Panel on Aquatic Nuisance Species

 

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