{"id":2394,"date":"2021-12-10T17:30:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T17:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.floridainvasives.org\/southwest\/?page_id=2394"},"modified":"2026-04-21T00:51:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T00:51:58","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.floridainvasives.org\/southwest\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a CISMA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;What is a CISMA?&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_column_text]Cooperative Invasive Species Management Areas (CISMAs) are partnerships between stakeholders focused on addressing the impact of invasive species in their region.<\/p>\n<p>CISMAs work to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Form cooperative partnerships between federal, state, local, and tribal agencies, private organizations, and individuals interested in invasive species management<\/li>\n<li>Expand management efforts across the landscape, rather than stopping at political or property boundaries<\/li>\n<li>Address prevention, early detection and rapid response, monitoring, management, and education and awareness of invasive species<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;2486&#8243; img_size=&#8221;Large&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;2483&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<strong>Southwest Florida CISMA&#8217;s mission<\/strong> is to leverage the combined knowledge and resources of our federal, state, local, tribal, non-profit, and private partners to combat the spread of invasive and non-native species across Collier, Lee, Charlotte, Hendry, and Glades Counties.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221; css_params=&#8221;&#8221;]<strong>Co-Chairs:<\/strong><br \/>\nJames Panciroli and Cody Weber[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;2842&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;What is a CISMA?&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_column_text]Cooperative Invasive Species Management Areas (CISMAs) are partnerships between stakeholders focused on addressing the impact of invasive species in their region. CISMAs work to: Form cooperative partnerships between federal, state, local, and tribal agencies, private organizations, and individuals interested in invasive species management Expand management efforts across the landscape, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2394","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floridainvasives.org\/southwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floridainvasives.org\/southwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floridainvasives.org\/southwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floridainvasives.org\/southwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floridainvasives.org\/southwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2394"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.floridainvasives.org\/southwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3111,"href":"https:\/\/www.floridainvasives.org\/southwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2394\/revisions\/3111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floridainvasives.org\/southwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}