Entomology and Plant Pathology

Research Specialties

Integrated Pest Management

* Map Links All U.S. State IPM Sites *
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A recently evolved information tool available to parties interested in IPM developments in any one of the 50 U.S. states is an interactive listing of state IPM homepages.

A mouse click on the map at http://www.ipmcenters.org/producers/homepages/state.html promptly brings up that state's current site for IPM information.

While many states have a dedicated IPM homepage or site--some are quite expansive and graphically appealing, some less detailed and visually enhanced--others have opted for variants and alternative approaches to addressing IPM. A few states have yet to designate or record an official IPM site, even though the state may well be engaged in extensive IPM activity.

Staff at the NSF Center for Integrated Pest Management, based at North Carolina State Univ., engineered the U.S. national IPM site and its expanding array of linkages, utilizing sponsorship of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture's Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service. *--> Mailto:cipm@ncsu.edu. [#]

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* Key Role for U.S. IPM Road Map *
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The latest iteration of the U.S. Road Map for Integrated Pest Management (RM-IPM) was published on 17 May 2004 and can be found at and printed from http://www.ipmcenters.org/IPMRoadMap.pdf. Initial
development of the document began in February 2002.

The goal of the RM-IPM is "to increase nationwide communication and efficiency through information exchanges among federal and non-federal IPM practitioners and service providers." These include land managers, growers, structural pest managers, and public and wildlife health officials. The intent is apply IPM approaches to all areas including" agricultural, structural, ornamental, turf, museums, public and
wildlife health pests, and encompass terrestrial and aquatic invasivespecies."

The multi-faceted RM-IPM envisions a key role for the four U.S.
regional IPM centers in both IPM development and implementation as well as information dissemination and data collection.

--excerpted, with thanks, from the RM-IPM website.

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• Dr. Pat Parkman