New York

Web Addresses

• http://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/265.html
• http://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/50121.html
  

 

Primary ANS Contacts

General AIS:

• Leslie Surprenant
  Leader, Invasive Species Coordination Unit
  NYS Department of Environmental Conservation
  Division of Lands and Forests
  625 Broadway, 5th Floor
  Albany, NY 12233-4250
  phone: 518.402.8980
  leslie.surprenant@dec.ny.gov

Freshwater plants:

• Scott A. Kishbaugh, PE
  Chief, Lake Monitoring and Assessment Section
  Bureau of Water Assessment and Management
  625 Broadway, 4th Floor
  Albany, NY 12233-4250
  phone: 518.402.8286
  scott.kishbaugh@dec.ny.gov

 

Panel Membership

Agency

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

Representative

• Leslie Surprenant
  New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
  Division of Lands and Forests, Invasive Species Coordination Unit

 

Species Actively Managed

Plants

• NY 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

• NY 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

• See NY’s lists of prohibited and regulated species http://www.dec.ny.gov/regulations/93848.html

 

Programs/Resources

• Implementation of twelve recommendations of former NY Invasive Species Task Force (applies to all taxa)
• Eight Partnerships for Regional Invasive Species Management covering all of NY’s geography
• NY Invasive Species Research Institute
• NY Invasive Species Clearinghouse http://www.nyis.info
• NY Invasive Species Database http://www.nyimpainvasives.org
• NY Statewide Education and Outreach Partnership
• NY Invasive Species Council – set in statute (nine agencies co-led by DEC and Department of Agriculture and Markets
• NY Invasive Species Advisory Committee – set in statute to advise the Council (25 non-governmental representatives including conservation, agriculture, trade, and academia)
  State funding – Environmental Protection Fund – State Fiscal Year 2014 – 15 was $4.7 Million
• Federal funding (mainly Great Lakes Restoration Initiative) – passed through to partners; supports control projects and boat steward programs in the Great Lakes drainage