Eastern Forest Threat Center

Threat Summary

Your search for Nevada returned 79 threats in the following categories:

Invasive Plants (59 threats)
Insects (5 threats)
Diseases (2 threats)
Climate (4 threats)
Loss of Open Space (3 threats)
Pollution (3 threats)
Wildland Fires (2 threats)
Unmanaged Recreation (1 threat)

SEARCH RESULTS

THREAT	LATIN NAME
INVASIVE PLANTS		Back to Top
Annual Bastard-Cabbage	Rapistrum rugosum
Bittersweet Nightshade	Solanum dulcamara
Bull Thistle	Cirsium vulgare
Canada Thistle	Cirsium arvense
Cheatgrass	Bromus tectorum
Chinese Elm	Ulmus parvifolia
Common Burdock	Arctium minus
Common Chickweed	Stellaria media
Common Mullein	Verbascum thapsus
Common Reed	Phragmites australis
Common Tansy	Tanacetum vulgare
Common Teasel	Dipsacus fullonum
Crown Vetch	Coronilla varia
Dalmatian Toadflax	Linaria dalmatica
Dame's Rocket	Hesperis matronalis
Diffuse Knapweed	Centaurea diffusa
Dyer’s Woad	Isatis tinctoria
Field Bindweed	Convolvulus arvensis
Giant Reed	Arundo donax
Hairy Vetch	Vicia villosa
Hairy Whitetop	Lepidium appelianum
Hoary False Madwort	Berteroa incana
Houndstongue	Cynoglossum officinale
Japanese Honeysuckle	Lonicera japonica
Jimsonweed	Datura stramonium
Johnsongrass	Sorghum halepense
Kochia	Kochia scoparia
Leafy Spurge	Euphorbia esula
Medusahead	Taeniatherum caput-medusae
Moneywort	Lysimachia nummularia
Musk Thistle	Carduus nutans
Narrow-leaved Cattail	Typha angustifolia
Oxeye Daisy	Leucanthemum vulgare
Perennial Pepperweed	Lepidium latifolium
Poison Hemlock	Conium maculatum
Purple Loosestrife	Lythrum salicaria
Quackgrass	Elymus repens
Queen Anne's Lace	Daucus carota
Reed Canary Grass	Phalaris arundinacea
Russian Knapweed	Acroptilon repens
Russian Olive	Elaeagnus angustifolia
Saltcedar	Tamarix ramosissima
Scotch Thistle	Onopordum acanthium
Sheep Sorrel	Rumex acetosella
Shepherd's Purse	Capsella bursa-pastoris
Siberian Elm	Ulmus pumila
Spotted Knapweed	Centaurea biebersteinii
St. Johnswort	Hypericum perforatum
Tall Fescue	Lolium arundinaceum
Tree-of-Heaven	Ailanthus altissima
Velvetleaf	Abutilon theophrasti
Weeping Willow	Salix x sepulcralis
White Poplar	Populus alba
Whitetop	Cardaria draba
Wild Parsnip	Pastinaca sativa
Yellow Iris	Iris pseudacorus
Yellow Starthistle	Centaurea solstitialis
Yellow Sweetclover	Melilotus officinalis
Yellow Toadflax	Linaria vulgaris
INSECTS		Back to Top
Banded Elm Bark Beetle	Scolytus schevyrewi
Elm Leaf Beetle	Xanthogaleruca luteola
Elongate Hemlock Scale	Fiorinia externa
Fall Webworm	Hyphantria cunea
Smaller European Elm Bark Beetle	Scolytus multistriatus
DISEASES		Back to Top
Armillaria Root Disease	Armillaria mellea
White Pine Blister Rust	Cronartium ribicola
CLIMATE		Back to Top
Climate Change
Drought
Flooding
Ice Storms
LOSS OF OPEN SPACE		Back to Top
Conversion
Fragmentation
Parcellation
POLLUTION		Back to Top
Acid Deposition
Ozone
Salt Injury
WILDLAND FIRES		Back to Top
Lack of Fuels Treatment
Wildland Arson
UNMANAGED RECREATION		Back to Top
Off-Highway Vehicles

The items above are part of an initial list of forest threats. These should not be interpreted as the top threats affecting forests in the Eastern U.S. We appreciate your feedback as additional forest threats are added to this page and as we work to further develop the forest threat summary viewer tool.