Frontlines | Plant Police Go Online Courtesy of Mic H. Julien, Invasive.org Defending the United States against invaders of the vegetative variety is a job that airport agriculture inspectors can't handle alone anymore. Internet plant vendors have proliferated like kudzu, creating a problem requiring a Web-based solution. "You've got folks shipping things among states and from outside the US through the mail; it represented just a whole new pathway for invasive species," says entomologist

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David L. Evans leaving NOAA to administer diverse Institute research facilities.