Web Addresses

Primary ANS Contacts

General AIS:

  • Catherine A. McGlynn
    Leader, Invasive Species Coordination Unit
    NYS Department of Environmental Conservation
    Division of Lands and Forests
    625 Broadway, 5th Floor
    Albany, NY 12233-4250
    phone: 518.408.0436
    catherine.mcglynn@dec.ny.gov

Freshwater plants:

  • Stephen Young, Botanist
    New York Heritage Program
    625 Broadway, 5th Floor
    Albany, NY 12233-4250
    phone: 518.402.8951
    steve.young@dec.ny.gov

 

Panel Membership

Agency

  • New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
    625 Broadway
    Albany, NY 12233

Representative

  • Catherine A. McGlynn
    New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
    Division of Lands and Forests, Invasive Species Coordination Unit

 

Species Actively Managed

Plants

  • New York does not have a state-wide invasive plant program; however, there are specific state-funded response projects that currently include Hydrilla (Hydrilla verticillata), Water chestnut (Trapa natans), and Eurasian water milfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum) and a number of plants managed in the Adirondack Park through an AIS response team including Common reed (Phragmites australis) and Eurasian water milfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum).

Animals

  • New York does not have a state-wide invasive animal program; however, active management of Asian clam (Corbicula fluminia) is occurring in one large lake in the Adirondack Region.

 

Other Established Species of Concern

Plants and animals

 

Programs/Resources

Protecting the marine and freshwater resources of the Northeast from invasive aquatic nuisance species