Presidential address the aquatic plant management society and our future sphere of influence

摘要

As has been said by many of my illustrious predecessors, it has been a great honor and pleasure to serve as President of the Aquatic Plant Management Society. Despite the fact that from the moment of becoming Vice-President one has three years to prepare a Presidential Address, my final choice of topic resulted, like so much else in my life, from fortunate serendipity rather than any great strategy on my part. My immediate predecessor, Kurt Getsinger, used the location of the 1997 meeting in Ft. Myers as a cue for his address about a sense of history in aquatic plant management. He closed with optimistic comments about the current and future condition of our Society and industry. So it seemed logical to expand on this with a more detailed look into the future, and that was exactly the theme that David Spencer had chosen for the 1998 meeting, "Challenges for the Next Century".