About: DESCRIPTION
Invasive species are non-native plants, animals, and insects that
harm native species, ecosystems, native people’s cultural resources, and
industries such as agriculture, forestry, and hydropower. Expansions of global
trade and increases in human mobility have resulted in unprecedented invasion by
invasive species.
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These sighting reports are submitted to Washington Invasive Species Council (WISC) staff and technical experts throughout the state to review and approve sighting reports.
A number of local, state and federal agencies and organizations work to prevent the introduction and spread of invasive species, physically control or eradicate them, monitor their distribution, and understand their characteristics.
Established by the Legislature in 2006, the Council provides policy-level direction, planning, and coordination for combating harmful invasive species throughout the state and preventing the introduction of others that may be potentially harmful.
Managing invasive species here in Washington State is complex due to the number and types of pathways through which species are introduced.
This mobile app is part of an integrated invasive species reporting and outreach campaign for WISC that also includes a website with an online reporting form.
Easy-to-Learn Species Info Images and information on Washington Invasive Species Council’s priority plant and animal species.
Invasive species are non-native plants, animals, and insects that harm native species, ecosystems, native people’s cultural resources, and industries such as agriculture, forestry, and hydropower.
You can submit invasive species sighting reports directly with your mobile device where they occur.
View other sighting reports Dynamic distribution maps showing confirmed sightings of all species captured through the app from your current location.
You can also learn more about priority invasive species in Washington with easy-to-understand descriptions and images.
In Washington, the costs of dealing with invasive species are in the millions of dollars each year.
Now you can help contribute to identifying and reporting invasive species before they become a bigger problem.
Expansions of global trade and increases in human mobility have resulted in unprecedented invasion by invasive species.
GPS and Photo Tools Easy species reporting uses your GPS to capture your current location and an image of your sightings.
By McLeaners
As long as you know how to use it, WAInvasives is useful. However, its main flaw is not having a user-friendly interface. WA Invasives has a GPS that can tag your location once you choose an invasive species to report. The tag that appears on the map shows a little ’i’ when you press on it. Press the ‘i’ to open up the details. From there, you enter your name, email, and a description of the species and how big it is, how many of them there are, etc. Then, you have to go to the report queue. Select the reports you want to submit and then press ‘upload’. I’m rating WAInvasives 4 stars because, although it has a lacking user interface, it was created for a good purpose. Once you get to know it, submitting reports isn’t that hard!
By tinac1
Just downloaded WAInvasives after seeing a story on KIRO 7 news —haven’t used it yet, but seems like a great idea. But, the font is very tiny & hard to read for folks without great vision. Please use iOS dynamic font.
By lajeidhso
As other reviews have noted the report sighting button does not work for some, I’m one of those. Tried everything I can think of, redoing the report, waiting till I got home on Wi-Fi, adjusting pics etc. I’m on an iPhone 7+ running 13.4.1 and I’m disappointed, there’s several huge patches of scotch broom in my area I wanted to report.
Should have more photos as well, 1 is not enough if you need to identify a plant you don’t know. And if the description says it could be mistaken for similar plants include photos of those as well
By MoNatureGo
I do like WAInvasives, but you really need more pictures of each item; especially plants. There are many similarities so close ups and full plant photos would be useful.
By krnsinf
Two things—first, the map feature is irritatingly dysfunctional. You can’t move the pin very far from your current location because it keeps zooming back to your gps location.
Second, for me at least, the report sighting button doesn’t actually work, rendering WAInvasives virtually useless.
By Milotic1234
Loud American bullfrogs croaking in my neighborhood; I tried to report using WAInvasives , but after pressing "report sighting", then dragging the pin then tried to press "report sighting" again, the second button simply won't work.
IPhone X
By Lara NL
A neat tool for hiking — I often see invasive species in the forest and didn’t think to report them. Handy.
WAInvasives is a bit clunky but I assume it will improve. Still usable.
By DogCop102
Decent App, but it isn’t current on its priority insect species. Where’s the Japanese beetle?
By _matx
Map function constantly reverts to current location which messes up trying to input the actual sighting location.
selecting a photo seems to work. Inputting data doesn’t. What do we put in these various fields? How do we proceed? How do we upload? No clue. No instructions. Waste of time.
By tacomagardener
Perfect for distinguishing invasive “pop-ups” in my garden, thank you! I really like how all the information is organized and easy to digest.
By kwmatley
I’m adding my complaint to the several who reported that there doesn’t seem to be any way to continue after entering your description. The report button is grayed out and nothing seems to change that.
By vrdcjjbuik
As stated the report function does not work at all. It’s ridiculously difficult to move the pin and the report citing button does not function at all rendering WAInvasives pointless.I have been trying to report Nutria.
By Bitburger_on_travel
I moved the pin to the map location, added a picture and description but the submit button didn’t work
No error
I’m running an iPhone 7 with the most current release
By islandgryl
Not useful as supposed to be. After pinpointing the location & hitting the ‘i’ it only opened up the camera option. No way to fill in details.
By Gwylliam
Running pp on 5th gen iPad and I have the same problem I had when WAInvasives first came out using an iPhone7. You can move the pin but unable to send the report.
By camygo
Pin can move only a small area and does not stick. Then report sighting function does not work at all.
By nshimmy
I have a iPhone 6 running IOS 11.4.1. The text for the species description gets cut off on the right hand side of the screen.
By Hokumelh
Seemingly doesn’t actually have a functioning “report a sighting” function.
By DIR Diver
Thanks for the recent updates. WAInvasives works well.
By RobsTWG
On my iPhone 7. Won’t accept the “report sighting “ after placing pin. Great idea though!
By BlazeeB23
I have to drag the pin a long ways when I want to report a sighting. Add an option to enter a sighting address. Otherwise, very informative app!
By BetaTesterGoneWrong
The pictures are not expandable. Need a closer look, then you must use another app or we search. Please update the pictures so they can be zoomed in on.
By Ballsdeep12468
I like WAInvasives but it should allow you to submit over cellular network.
By Mike.2014
WAInvasives is cool! Help reporting sightings of invasive species statewide.
Yes. WA Invasives is very safe to use. This is based on our NLP (Natural language processing) analysis of over 31 User Reviews sourced from the Appstore and the appstore cumulative rating of 2.6/5 . Justuseapp Safety Score for WA Invasives Is 44.4/100.
Yes. WA Invasives is a totally legit app. This conclusion was arrived at by running over 31 WA Invasives User Reviews through our NLP machine learning process to determine if users believe the app is legitimate or not. Based on this, Justuseapp Legitimacy Score for WA Invasives Is 62.2/100..
WA Invasives works most of the time. If it is not working for you, we recommend you excersise some patience and retry later or Contact Support.
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