NOXIOUS WEEDS -- A THREAT TO THE LAND WE CALL HOME
  Noxious weeds reduce land values and landowner profitability by:    
 

♠  Crowding out beneficial native plants

♠  Creating fire hazards

♠  Poisoning/injuring humans, livestock and

     wildlife                    

♠  Chocking streams and waterways

♠  Fouling sites from use           

♠  Degrading wildlife habitat  and livestock

     forage

Dalmation Toadflax flower.

Dalmation Toadflax

Linaria genistifolia ssp. dalmatica

 

The spread of noxious weeds may signal the decline of entire watersheds.  They impact the beauty and biodiversity of natural areas and cause widespread economic losses.

 

  
 

Meadow Hawkweed
Hieracium caespitosum

 Weeds are problems for urban as well as rural areas and for private, state, and federal lands.  Control will require the help of all landowners!

Purple Loosestrife - Lythrum salicaria

Purple Loosestrife
Lythrum salicaria

  
  Scientists who focus on ecological effects of global change consider invasive species the most serious threat, more serious than global warming or ozone deletion.  Once a noxious weed is widely disbursed, it is virtually impossible to eradicate, making it's effect on the environment permanent.

Do Your Part -- Control Noxious Weeds On Your Property

  
           

A Message from the Clearwater Basin Cooperative Weed Management Area
  Early detection and treatment of noxious weeds is the key to successful management of invasive plants.  To assist in this effort, your local Noxious Weed Control Department offers a number of free services, including weed identification booklets, site reviews, control method alternatives, and loanable equipment (backpack sprayers), etc.  Contact your local County Weed Control superintendent for additional information about the services they offer.

Close up of Rush Skeletonweed flower and seedhead.

Rush Skeletonweed

Chondrilla juncea

  
 

Spotted Knapweed flower.

Spotted Knapweed

Centaurea stoebe ssp. micranthos

  • Clearwater County     Dennis Williams           208-476-4918

  • Latah County             Alan Martinson            208-883-7210

  • Lewis County             Carol Furey-Werhan     208-937-2380

  • Nez Perce County      Hugh Jacobs               208-799-3060

  
 

More information concerning Idaho's noxious weed program is available at the Idaho State Department of Agriculture and  your County Weed Superintendent.  Educational information is also available from your county Extension agent.

 

  
  Nez Perce County Noxious Weed Department   Idaho State Department of Agriculture  

 

 

Idaho One Plan

 

 

Idaho Weed Awareness Campaign