Special Thanks

     We would like to thank Karen Hargrove for talking with us and sending us information on nonnative species.  You were wonderful to go out of your way to help us.

     We would like to thank Kristine Johnson for sending us information, talking to us through e-mail and phone, and helping us make the right connections to get our project completed.  Your help was tremendous.

     We would like to thank Ijams Nature Center for the tour and information provided to our team.

     We would like to thank Dr. Hickey for being our assistant coach and for all of his support during this project.

     We would like to thank Mr. Butch McGuire for all his support in making this project possible.

    We would like to thank the people of Sugarland Visitor Center in the Smoky Mountains for helping us learn more about the nonnative plants.

     We would like to give a big thanks to Larry Arwood for helping us with making our logo and with the technical problems in completing our project.

    We would like to thank our parents for supporting us while we worked on this project.  They drove us around the area so we could take pictures of exotic plants, and they made arrangements to pick us up after school when we stayed late to work on our web page.

Graphic Permissions

Permission to use images of plants taken by James H. Miller, USDA
    Forest Service, found at http://www.invasive.org, was granted
   through e-mail on Nov. 25, 2003.

The rest of the pictures were taken or drawn by team members.

         Websites

 Air Potato. Retrieved January 14, 2004 from
      http://aquat1.ifas.ufl.edu/diobul.html. 

Air Potato in Florida.  Retrieved on January 14, 2004 from
     http://kgioeli.ifas.ufl.edu/airpotato.pdf.

Autumn Olive. Retrieved on January 12, 2004 from
    http://greenwoodnursery.com/page.cfm/263.

 Autumn Olive and Russian Olive.  Retrieved January 14, 2004 from
    http://www.vnps.org/invasive/inveleag.htm.

 Chinaberry, (Copyright 2001).  University of Florida, IFAS, Center for
     Aquatic and Invasive Plants.  Retrieved February 10, 2004, from    
     http://aquat1.ifas.ufl.edu/melaze.html.

 Chinaberrytree. Retrieved February 10, 2004 from     
    http://www.invasive.org/eastern/srs/CT.html.

Climbing Yams. Retrieved on November 12, 2003 from
    http://www.invasive.org.

Description and Natural History of the Periwinkle. Retrieved on
     December 10,2003 from
     http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/botany/perihist.html.

Element Stewardship Abstract for Vinca Major. Retrieved on
December 10, 2003 from  http://tncweeds.ucdavis.edu/esadocs/documnts/vincmaj.html.
 

 Invasive Species: Chinaberry Tree, (Updated 2003, September 21). 
Bull Creek Foundation.  Retrieved February 10, 2004, from
http://www.bullcreek.net/chinaberry.html.

 Remaley, T. and Swearingen, J. M. (Edited by) (1998).  Chinese
      Lespedeza.  Retrieved February 10, 2004, from
      http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/fact/lecu1.htm.

The Encyclopedia of Southern Appalachian Forest. 'USDA Forest
    Service.  Retrieved on October 20, 2003, from
    http://encyclopedia.soforext.net/index.html.

Tropical Soda Apple, Wetland Nightshade, and Turkey Berry.
    Retrieved February 11, 2004 from
    http://www.invasive.org/eastern/biocontrol/23SodaApple.html.

Tropilab Inc., Retrieved February 3, 2004, from
    http://www.tropilab.com/china-ber.html.

Vegetation Management Guide Line Autumn Olive. Retrieved on
    November 6, 2004 from
    http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/chf/outreach/VMG/autolive.html.

         Vincas, Periwinkles. Retrieved on November 6, 2004 from
    http://www.invasive.org.

Wanted: Stop the Spread Tropical Soda Apple. Retrieved on February
    11, 2004 from http://www.gacaps.org/pests/tsafact.html.

                                          Books and Videos

Hargrove, Karen; Sadler, Kim Clearly; and Smith-Walter, Dr. Cindi.
     Noxious Neighbors: Exotics in Our Backyard. 

Hunter, Margie. Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee, The  
     Spirit Of Place. The University Of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, TN.

Miller, James H.  Nonnative Invasive Plants of Southern Forest.
     Southern Research Station, Ashville, NC.

"If It's Green, It's Good?".  The Center for Environmental Education at
     MTSU & USDA Forest Service.

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