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Impact Report
| For plan | Youth Development (Colfax County) |
| Date | October 31, 2007, 9:25 pm |
| For Objective | Short-term Show short-term objectives |
| Impact Report | “Mapping Noxious Weeds with a GPS Unit” A Noxious Weeds presentation was given to the Raton FFA organization on May 3. In this presentation, the students had to be informed of what the weeds that we were going to map looked like, also a demonstration of how to use a GPS devise for weed mapping was given. An exercise was done around the Raton High School parking lot, where the agent had hid some oranges and he gave the students the coordinates and they were asked to use their GPS to go find the objects, they then were to map approximately ten feet around the object, and to return back to the classroom with the information. On May 10th a noxious weed mapping session was conducted in Sugarite State Park where the 13 members of the Raton FFA organization along with their advisor mapped Canada thistle. On May 17th a presentation was given on how to download the information from the GPS to the computer. Throughout the summer different methods of control were exercised, including mowing and biological releases. The Raton FFA advisor did take the group for one more session of mapping in June. Next year the noxious weeds will be mapped again to compare the 2007 results. The program utilized the agent for 12 hours of presentation time and 16 hours of field time. |