State to battle invasive species
The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reports today on the State’s effort to battle invasive species. The Invasive Species Task Force recently released its final report and this week Pataki proposed $2 million in funding for this effort.
This week, Pataki included $2 million for implementing the task force’s recommendations as part of his proposed 2006-07 budget. The money could go toward continuing a community grant program for fighting infestations, as well as creating a permanent staff to coordinate invasive species planning.
The full cost of creating a strategy to fight invasive species in New York could exceed $10 million a year for several years, the report said. When the costs of controlling the plants and animals that have already arrived are counted, the price rises into the billions…
Full story here from D&C Staff writer, Misty Edgecomb, State to battle invasive species: Effort is under way to control problem-causing foreign critters, plants.
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