On January 26, Great Lakes United joined its fellow members of the National Environmental Coalition on Invasive Species (NECIS) in writing a letter to Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, calling on him to release a report outlining the Fish and Wildlife Service's legal and regulatory authority on invasive species.

The report and its recommendations would help lawmakers as Congress is likely to consider new legislation to improve Fish and Wildlife Service's ability to screen and prevent the import of harmful non-native wildlife and diseases.

Weaknesses in current screening legislation allowed the invasive Asian carp to be brought in the United States, where it eventually escaped into the wild, ravaging the Mississippi River basin, and threatening to do the same to the Great Lakes.

To read the letter, click here.