List of Acronyms
	AEC	Army Environmental Center
	NSTF	Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force
	APHIS	Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
	APIRS	Aquatic Plant Information Retrieval System
	BCD	Biological Conservation Database of the Florida Natural Areas Inventory
	BEN	Botanical Electronic Newsletter
	BLM	Bureau of Land Management
	BONAP	Biota of North America Program
	BRD	Biological Resources Division
	CAPS	Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey
	CPFS	Colorado Plateau Field Station
	DOD	Department of Defense
	FGDC	Federal Geographic Data Center
	FHM	Forest Health Monitoring Program
	FICMNEW	Federal Interagency Committee for the Management of Noxious and Exotic Weeds
	FLEPPC	Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council
	FNAI	Florida Natural Areas Inventory
	FSRMIS	Forest Service Range Management Information System
	GILS	Global Information Locator Service
	GIS	Geographic Information System
	HEAR	Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk Project
	IAS	Invasive Alien Species
	INFRA	infrastructure
	ICBI	Interagency Center for Biological Invasions
	MAB	Man and the Biosphere
	NAPIS	National Agricultural Pest Information System
	NBII	National Biological Information Infra-structure
	NIS	Nonnative Invasive Species
	NPDC	National Plant Data Center
	NPS	National Park Service
	NRCS	Natural Resources Conservation Service
	NRMAP	Natural Resource Management and Assessment Program
	NWIS	Noxious Weed Information System
	OTA	Office of Technology Assessment
	UDOT	Utah Department of Transportation
	USACE	United States Army Corps of Engineers
	USDA	United States Department of Agriculture
	USFS	United States Forest Service
	USGS	United States Geological Survey
	WES	Waterways Experiment Station

U.S. Department of the Interior
U.S. Geological Survey
Biological Resources Division