SUBCOMMITTEE ON NATIONAL PARKS, FORESTS AND PUBLIC LANDS
AND
SUBCOMMITTEE ON INSULAR AFFAIRS, OCEANS AND WILDLIFE
1334 Longworth House Office Building
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
1:00 p.m.

• Opening Statement by Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife Ranking Member Henry Brown
• Archived hearing audiocast

JOINT OVERSIGHT HEARING ON:

• "How to Manage Large Constrictor Snakes and Other Invasive Species"

WITNESSES & TESTIMONY:

Panel I

Bert Frost, Ph.D.
Associate Director
Natural Resources, Stewardship and Science
National Park Service

Panel II

Frank J. Mazzotti, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Wildlife Ecology
Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center
University of Florida
Davie, FL

Marcy Heacker, M.S. (Slideshow)
Division of Birds
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC

Daniel Thayer
Director
Department of Vegetation & Land Management
South Florida Water Management District
West Palm Beach, FL

Jorge P. Gutierrez, Jr.
Civil Trial Attorney
Gonzalez and Garcia
Miami, FL

Shawn K. Heflick 
Palm Bay, FL

Panel III

Daniel Simberloff, Ph.D.
Gore Hunger Professor of Environmental Science
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN

Phyllis Windle, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist, Invasive Species
Union of Concerned Scientists
Washington, DC

Scott Hardin
Exotic Species Coordinator
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
Tallahassee, FL