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NOXIOUS WEED IMPACTS

Growing What's So Pains. Why Should Dangerous Facts I Care about About the about Noxious Impacts of Weed Noxious Weeds? Restoring Invasions on the Ecology in the and Economy native wildlife for Western of Montana? today and United (being updated for a tomorrow. States. regional audience) Greater Yellowstone US Department R.L. Sheley et al. 2005. Coordinating of the Interior Montana State University Committee Noxious Bureau of Land Extension Bulletin 152 Weed Subcommittee Management

WEED IDENTIFICATION

Identification is Key to Zero Weed Pocket Spread weed management. Early Detection Rapid Response Cards US Department of Natural Resources Guide Conservation Service, Montana Department of Yellow Starthistle - Leafy Spurge - Dalmatian Toadflax - Greater Yellowstone Agriculture, and Montana State University Statewide Spotted Knapweed. A weed you should get to know. Coordinating Committee Noxious Weed Awareness and Education Campaign Center for Invasive Plant Management

Protect our water resources with Zero Spread aquatics management. 2006. US Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service and Montana Statewide Noxious Weed Awareness and Education Campaign (POSTER)

Not All Alien Invaders Eurasian Are From Outer Space. watermilfoil Somewhere out there, in a An Aggressive remote part of the world, a Non-Native Water Weed. creature awaits ... The S.O.S. Unknown Invader Save our Shores Scaryus eatumpis Pretty faces... Western Area Weed Council bad attitudes. Pulling Together; Montana Fish, US Department of Agriculture 2002. Montana Wildlife and Parks; US Department and Plant Health Inspection Service Department of Fish, of Agriculture Forest Service; US Program Aid 1665 Wildlife and Parks Army Corps of Engineers National Invasive Species Library Statewide Noxious Weed Awareness and Education

WEED ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Montana State University Extension Service Bulletins - Call 406-994-2373

Dalmatian Sulfur Montana Leafy Spurge Purple Rush Riparian Weed and Yellow Cinquefoil Knapweeds: Biology, Ecology Loosestrife Skeletonweed Management Toadflax Biology, Ecolory Identification, and Management A Noxious Weed A Threat to EB 137 Weeds of and Management Biology and EB 134 Threat to Montana’s Updated January 2005 Reprinted July 1999 Pasture and in Pasture and Management Wetlands in Agriculture Rangeland Rangeland Circular 311 Montana EB 132 Reprinted November EB 115 Revised 10/05 EB 109 Reprinted August 2003 EB 70 Revised March 1994 Updated January 2005 2000

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Ecology and Ecology and Ecology and Ecology and Ecology and Management of Management of Management of Management of Management of Leafy Spurge Yellow Toadflax Dalmatian Toadflax Field Bindweed Dyer’s Woad (Euphorbia esula L.) [Linaria vulgaris (L.) Mill.] [Euphorbia esula (L.) Mill.] (Convolvulus arvensis L.) (Isatis tinctoria L.) 07/07 MT 07/07 MT \07/07 MT 07/07 MT 07/07 MT

Ecology and Ecology and Ecology and Ecology and Ecology and Management of Management of Management of Management of Management of Canada Thistle Houndstongue Russian Knapweed Spotted Knapweed Perennial [ (L.) Scop.] [Cynoglossum officinale L.) [Acroptilon repens (L.) DC] (Centaurea maculosa Lam.) Pepperweed 07/07 MT 07/07 MT 07/07 MT 07/07 MT (Lepidium latifolium L.) 07/07 MT National Invasive Species Library Statewide Noxious Weed Awareness and Education LANDSCAPES AND HABITAT TEN EDUCATIONAL PLACEMATS Native Plants documented by Lewis and Clark two hundred years ago and the noxious weeds we may find at the same locations today. Statewide Noxious Weed Awareness and Education Campaign

Lewis and Clark landed at the three forks of the Lewis and Clark travel down the trail near Missouri -- the headwaters on July 27, 1805. Traveler’s rest near Missoula in 1805.

July 26, 1806 -- William Clark carved his name Lewis and Clark reached the Gates of the alongside Indian designs at Pompey’s Pillar. Mountains in July 1805.

Lewis and Clark sighted by the Assiniboine Re-discover nature at Rainbow Falls - June 14, Indians - May 26, 1805 where what is now the 1805 Lewis stopped briefly at Rainbow Falls of Charles M. Russell National Wildlife the Missouri. National Invasive Species Library Statewide Noxious Weed Awareness and Education LANDSCAPES AND HABITAT

TWO POSTERS: Lewis and Clark at the Tower Creek “Pirimids” Idaho artist Barbara Peets portrays Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and Interpreter George Droulliard as they came upon the Tower Creek “Pirimids” on August 21, 1805. The Corps of Discovery camped about a mile north of the pyramids that evening.

Lewis and Clark at the Gates of the Rocky Mountains Havre Artist Don Greytak captures An Exotic Invasion of Elk the “most remarkable clifts” where Country. WEEDS according to the journals “every Thousands of exotic plants Enduring Stories object here wears a dark and gloomy now grow in the United States. Dynamic Landscapes aspect.” Most add spice to life. Some The Lewis and Clark Expedition are a bit annoying. A few are on National Forest and nothing short of ecological Grasslands time bombs. US Department of Agriculture Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Forest Service

PREVENTION

Leave No Weeds A conservation and education campaign based on the Leave No Noxious Weeds Horse Sense Hikers’ Alert On the Right Trail. Trace principles. A Growing Packing Lightly on Your US Department of An Ethical Guide for OHV Lolo National Forest National Forests the Interior Riders. http://ww.fs.fed.us/r1/lolo/ Concern. Bureau of Land US Department of Agriculture recreation/weeds.Inw.html You Can Help Management Montana Trail Vehicle Riders Forest Service Stop Their http://www.blm.gov/e Association; ducation/education.h Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks; US Spread. tml Department of Agriculture Forest US Department of the Service; National Off Highway Vehicle Interior Bureau of Land Conservation Council US Department Management of the Interior Bureau of Land Management National Invasive Species Library Statewide Noxious Weed Awareness and Education MANAGING WEED SPREAD

Conservation that works. An introduction to The Nature Conservancy’s work with fire around the world. The Nature Conservancy May 2005 National Strategy and nature.org/fire The Use of Fire as a Tool for Implementation Plan for Controlling Invasive Plants. Invasive Species Management US Geological Survey and California Invasive Plant Council US Department of Agriculture Forest Service

Restoration Resource Database Center for Invasive Plant Management A Landowner’s Guide to http://ag.msu.montana.edu/cipmresource/ Noxious Weeds. Silent Invaders in the Greater Yellowstone Area Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Flash Cards - Biological Control Committee R1-03-108 Statewide Noxious Weed Awareness and Education Campaign and US Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Plant Protection Quarantine

TIPS for Fighting Weeds on Small Acreages in Montana. Montana Department of Natural Resources and Revegetation Guidelines for Conservation; Montana Statewide Noxious Weed Awareness and Education Campaign; Montana Fish, Western Montana: Wildlife and Parks, Montana Department of Agriculture; Considering Invasive Weeds Dow AgroSciences; BASF; and Montana Weed Districts Montana State University Extension Service National Invasive Species Library Statewide Noxious Weed Awareness and Education CURRICULUM Adding Invasive Species Science to Math, Art, History, Science, and English by Todd Breitenfeldt on CD

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Townsend Schools Bugs and Weeds Alien Invasion Plants on the Move website and on CD Woodsy Owl Invasive Weeds Oregon Department of Agriculture and US Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Activity Kit Management weedinvasion.org US Department of Agriculture Forest Service bugsandweeds.org

Center for Invasive Plant Management Matrix for Youth Activities Curriculum K-12 - COMING SOON! www.weedcenter.org Montana kNOweeds K-12 National Invasive Species Information Center - www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov Curriculum Contact Invasive Species What’s New K-12 Resources Archives http://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/resources/educk12.shtml Missoula County Weed District 406-258-4219

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