NARA-B President John Peter Thompson offers the following Articles of Interest: Invasive Species Complexities: A Wicked Inconvenience   Invasive Species (Kudzu) Meets Fox News   National Agricultural Research Center; Invasive Species, Climate Change & Poison Ivy   BARC: Funding for Research Continues to Fall   BARC-National Agricultural Research Center Alliance NARAB   Homeland security; E. coli, and diminished funding & BARC	On January 8, 2008, members of the Maryland Congresional Delegation wrote to Acting U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Conner seeking a strategic plan for BARC and NAL. Delegation Letter to USDA