WRDA 2000 Programmatic Authority Projects:
Melaleuca Eradication Project and Other Exotic Plants
This feature includes: 1) upgrading and retrofitting the current quarantine facility in Gainesville, and 2) large-scale rearing of approved biological control organisms for release at multiple sites within the south Florida ecosystem.
The purpose of this feature is to increase the effectiveness of biological control technologies to manage Melaleuca and other invasive exotic species.
(source: Final Feasibility Report and PEIS, April 1999, Section 9.1.11.1, page 9-28)
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