The Upper Raritan Watershed Association (URWA), in partnership with Friends of Hopewell Valley Open Space (FoHVOS), is pleased to announce the creation of the Central Jersey Invasive Species Strike Team (CJISST). The Strike Team represents the state's first comprehensive effort toward invasive plant management through a public-private partnership that is pooling its expertise and resources to reduce the spread of invasive plants. The CJISST's objective is to find and destroy new populations of invasive species on public and private lands in New Jersey’s Highlands and Piedmont regions. In addition, project partners are reaching out to private landowners and public land managers to encourage them to remove invasive plants from their landscapes and replace them with native plants.