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2000

Saving Utah's Landscape

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Saving Utah's Landscape, Dinosaur National Monument, Usu Extension Jan 2000

Saving Utah's Landscape, Dinosaur National Monument, Usu Extension

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At Dinosaur National Monument, an aggressive, well-planned weed management program is assisted by a host of volunteers. Last year the monument’s Weed Warrior Program 482 volunteers contributed 2,107 hours of weed removal.


Saving Utah's Landscape, Early Detection & Rapid Response, Usu Extension Jan 2000

Saving Utah's Landscape, Early Detection & Rapid Response, Usu Extension

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Members of the Utah-Idaho Cooperative Weed Management Area recognized that one of the greatest threats to their landscape was new, small infestations of noxious weeds.


Saving Utah's Landscape, Squarrose Knapweed, Usu Extension Jan 2000

Saving Utah's Landscape, Squarrose Knapweed, Usu Extension

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What began in the 1950s as a small patch of weeds near a grain elevator in Juab County, turned into a serious environmental problem that impacts the state’s wildlife, grazing and tourist industries. In the early 1990s, it was estimated that squarrose knapweed infested nearly 200,000 acres of rangeland in central Utah.


Saving Utah's Landscape, Purge Your Spruge, Usu Extension Jan 2000

Saving Utah's Landscape, Purge Your Spruge, Usu Extension

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How do you get residents in a vast metropolitan area like Salt Lake City to understand the threat of invading and noxious weeds? The Bonneville Cooperative Weed Management Area (CWMA) focused their attention on an escaping ornamental.