In this webinar, Clint Moore of the U.S. Geological survey will showcase a management decision support system that was developed for invasive Phragmites within the National Wildlife Refuge System. The introduced common reed, Phragmites australis, is a widespread invader of units of the National Wildlife Refuge System of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Refuge managers want condition-specific guidance on how to treat patches of Phragmites to restore native plant compositions. However, it has become increasingly apparent that the response of stands of invasive Phragmites to treatments across a range of habitat settings is highly uncertain. Additionally, the immediate need for action combined with extremely limited budgets precludes the conduct of informative, broad-scale research. Moore and his team developed an objective-based, learning-focused system of decision support for invasive Phragmites management for refuges in the northeastern and northcentral U.S. Refuge personnel worked collaboratively to quantify management objectives and to develop models that guide the selection of treatments in response to observed conditions on the ground. The basis for selecting an action and for providing feedback to the predictive models is a monitoring program that measures vegetation composition of the patch. Join us to learn more about this exciting new tool.