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Impact Report

For plan Brush and Weed Control Education Program (Rio Arriba County)
Date October 26, 2010, 9:00 pm
For Objective Long-term Show long-term objectives
Impact Report 2009-2010 Brush and Weed Control Program The Northern New Mexico Cooperative Weed Management Area (NNMCWMA) program continues to be successful throughout the program year. In addition to $15,000 contributed by two Soil and Water Conservation Districts in the county, $10,000 from Rio Arriba County and $30,000 from State Forestry, the organization has acquired another $25,000 from State Forestry, $10,000 from BLM and $5,000 from the Northern Rio Grande RC&D Council for the coming year. Approximately 360 acres were treated in some way this past year. Fifty pulse acres will be inter-seeded with a competing perennial grass to compete with the winter annual Downy Brome. Other acreage were sprayed to control Chicory, Canada Thistle, Bull Thistle, Musk Thistle, Russian Knapweed, Hoary Cress, Leafy Spurge, Purple Loosestrife, Dalmatian Toadflax, Sulfur Cinquefoil, Oxeye Daisy, Perennial Pepper weed, Siberian Elm, Tree of Heaven and Russian Olive. The program works by helping individuals get control of infestation in their managed lands, and then once they know what to do and understand the biology of the noxious and invasive plants it then becomes the individuals responsibly to contain and control the infestation from then on. The agent has is integral part the process. First of all the agent is first contact on how to manage land that might be infested with invasive and noxious plants. Then if there is some control that needs to take place the weed coordinator will map the invasion and train the individual how to control the plants using equipment belonging to the Soil and Water Districts and or the NNMCWMA. Education of the whole process is continually being done the whole time. From understanding the value of the plants to the potential economic damage the plants can pose.