1) FWS NISP- The STFWO Non-Native Invasive Species Program is the over-arching program with a general long-term goal to protect and restore healthy ecosystems in the states of California and Nevada by being accountable for providing decision support and guidance to our partners. Generally, our actions will focus on three goals: 1) preventing new introductions of undesirable invasive species, 2) limiting the spread or eliminating populations of undesirable invasive species through management, and 3) reducing the harmful ecological, economical, social and public health impacts resulting from infestation of undesirable invasive species. The two programs, NISP and CNO ANS, are similar in function but do have distinct differences. These differences are geographic scope and ecosystems.
2) Calfed NIS Program (NISP)- Non-native Invasive Species Program seeks to provide technical guidance and coordinate implementation of NIS strategies and assist with developing a prevention, control, and management approaches that include short-term response plans and longer term action plans to respond to invasions by non-native species in the Bay-Delta and its watersheds. NISP encourages and when possible enhances capacity of watershed groups with their ability to address NIS issues in the Bay-Delta focus area. This program works on invasive species issues in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.
The Calfed Bay-Delta Program (Calfed) was established in 1995 to reduce conflicts in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay-Delta system by resolving problems with ecosystem quality, water quality, water supply reliability, and levee system integrity. Within Calfed, there are eleven Program Elements. The Ecological Restoration Program (ERP) is the principle Program component designed to restore the ecological health of the Bay-Delta ecosystem.
Within the Calfed Record of Decision (ROD), the ERP was tasked with developing and implementing an invasive species program. The Stockton Fish and Wildlife Office provides coordination and leadership to the Calfed ERP Non-native Invasive Species Program (NISP). This program actively works to accomplish three primary goals. The first of these is preventing new introductions and establishment of NIS into the ecosystems of the San Francisco Bay-Delta, the Sacramento/ San Joaquin Rivers and their watersheds. The second goal is limiting the spread or, when possible and appropriate, eliminating populations of NIS through management. The third goal is reducing the harmful ecological, economic, social and public health impacts resulting from infestations of NIS through appropriate management.
3) CNO ANS- California Nevada Operations office Aquatic Nuisance Species program seeks to coordinate and implement management strategies that are state, regional, and national in focus. These efforts are accomplished through National Management Plans, regional partnerships like the 100th Meridian Initiative and partnerships. The ANS program encourages, provides technical support and when possible enhances partner capacity to address ANS issues in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service California- Nevada Region. This program works on invasive species issues in aquatic ecosystems.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) California Nevada Operations Aquatic Nuisance Species program is responsible for coordination of national and California/Nevada regional efforts to prevent the introduction and spread of aquatic nuisance species, with oversight from the Aquatic Nuisance Species Taskforce (ANSTF). The ANSTF is an intergovernmental entity established under the Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance Prevention and Control Act of 1990 (Act, 6 U.S.C. 4701-4741), as amended by the National Invasive Species Act of 1996 (NISA). The ANSTF is co-chaired by the USFWS and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
