Background: In 2007 Representative Clyde Kersey and Senator Sue Landske introduced resolutions recommending that the Natural Resources Study Committee “establish a task force to study the economic and environmental impacts of invasive species in Indiana and provide findings and recommendations on strategies for prevention, early detection, control and management of invasive species to minimize these impacts.” The Legislative Council took these resolutions under advisement and assigned the topic to the Natural Resources Study Committee. In turn, the Study Committee created the task force which was then directed to report back to the Study Committee this past summer.

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