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Invasive Plant Inventory and Early Detection Prioritization Tool for Eastern Shore of Virginia NWR

Metadata Updated: February 21, 2025

In 2010-2013, the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) partnered with Utah State University to conduct invasive plant prioritization workshops and inventories on selected National Wildlife Refuges across the United States. The purpose of these workshops and subsequent inventories was to inform and improve the process of planning and implementing invasive plant inventories or early detection. These workshops highlighted the need for an objective, transparent and documented process for deciding which invasive plant species should be a focus of inventory or early detection (and ultimately management) and where. A result of this partnership is the Invasive Plant Inventory and Early Detection Prioritization Tool (IPIEDT) and associated user's guide. The tool is a Microsoft Access database (2010 or later) that utilizes site-specific knowledge and harnesses existing invasive plant information (invasive species risk rankings) to identify priority species and areas for inventory or early detection. The tool produces a ranked list of areas and invasive plant species to consider for inventory or early detection. Once the location and abundance of priority invasive plants are understood, this information can be used to decide what specific management strategies should be employed and where. Interior 1 Regional and Refuge staff used the database developed by Utah State and the Pacific Southwest Region to prioritize invasives species at the Eastern Shore of Virginia. The attached products are the result of that prioritization.

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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References

https://iris.fws.gov/APPS/ServCat/Reference/Profile/122454

Dates

Metadata Created Date June 1, 2023
Metadata Updated Date February 21, 2025

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Additional Metadata

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Metadata Created Date June 1, 2023
Metadata Updated Date February 21, 2025
Publisher U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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Publisher Hierarchy White House > U.S. Department of the Interior > U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Related Documents https://iris.fws.gov/APPS/ServCat/Reference/Profile/122454
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Temporal 2017-01-01T12:00:00Z/2017-01-01T12:00:00Z

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