Invasive Species Advisory Committee

Spring 2016 ISAC Meeting (Washington, DC)

New Members of ISAC-9

 

ISAC is a group of non-federal experts and stakeholders established and mandated by Executive Order (EO) 13112 to provide advice to The National Invasive Species Council (NISC) on invasive species-related issues.

ISAC Members are appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, with extensive input from the other NISC member departments and agencies; and may serve a maximum of two terms, each three years in length. ISAC members are not paid for their service. Its expertise represents a wide variety of interests from academia, industry, and the private sector.

Chartered under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). ISAC generally holds at least two meetings per year. All meetings are open to the public, and minutes of each meeting are available to the public for review (see ISAC Charter and ISAC Bylaws.)

Since its creation in 1999, ISAC has provided valuable input to NISC and has produced several white papers to assist Federal agencies in providing guidance on invasive species challenges. In addition to providing crucial input to the drafting of the 2001 and 2008-2012 Invasive Species National Management Plan.

Coordinated through the NISC Secretariat, ISAC has begun work on NISC priority initiatives through five subcommittees, or "task teams" focused on:

  1. Strengthing Federal/State coordination
  2. Strengthing Federal/Tribal coordination
  3. Identifying risks and opportunities for the application of gene editing as a means of eradicating or controlling invasive species
  4. Assessing implication of, and needs to, regulate invasive species that impact infrastructure
  5. Assessing implication of, and needs to, regulate invasive species that impace wildlife health

As mandated by FACA, the work of the subcomittees is reported to the full ISAC.

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