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Establishing Weed Prevention Areas And Evaluating Their Impact, Stephanie Christensen
Establishing Weed Prevention Areas And Evaluating Their Impact, Stephanie Christensen
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The spread of invasive weeds continues to be a serious economic and environmental threat. Weed prevention has the potential to stop weeds before they become well established in an area conserving time, energy, and resources. Unfortunately, weed prevention is often overlooked. Weed Prevention Areas (WPAs) are a relatively new tool developed to help improve the application of weed prevention. They are cooperatively managed areas that focus on implementing prevention and early detection strategies at a community level. The purpose of this research was to establish baseline data that will be used to evaluate the overall effectiveness of the WPA concept, …