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Brush and Weed Control Education Program (Rio Arriba County)
Plan Goals
To educate land owners and land management agencies by engaging them in the development of land management objectives that will best fit resources available.
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Brush and Weed Control Education Program
Impact Reports
2010-2011 Brush and Weed Control Program
The Northern New Mexico Cooperative Weed Management Area (NNMCWMA) program continues to be successful. A working format has been established. This year the organization has struggled with the hiring of a qualified coordinator. Since the position is seasonal and part-time it is most difficult to find the right person for the job. This year the organization tried to hire a weed coordinator for the East Rio Arriba Soil and Water Conservation District area and another one for the Upper Chama Soil and Water Conservation District area in order to lessen the amount of travel in the county. Pervious coordinators had suggested that this was area for improvement. Yet again this fall the organization continues to struggle since the current coordinator has found another job. The budget currently is at $47,000.00 with contributors’ being New Mexico State Forestry, both Soil and Water Conservation Districts, Upper Chama and East Rio Arriba, Northern Rio Grande RC&D Council and Bureau of Land Management. The county has opted not to contribute due to budgetary cuts this year. However, treatment of some kind has been on accomplished on 300 plus acres of New Mexico’s’ invasive and noxious plants.
The Northern New Mexico Cooperative Weed Management Area (NNMCWMA) program continues to be successful. A working format has been established. This year the organization has struggled with the hiring of a qualified coordinator. Since the position is seasonal and part-time it is most difficult to find the right person for the job. This year the organization tried to hire a weed coordinator for the East Rio Arriba Soil and Water Conservation District area and another one for the Upper Chama Soil and Water Conservation District area in order to lessen the amount of travel in the county. Pervious coordinators had suggested that this was area for improvement. Yet again this fall the organization continues to struggle since the current coordinator has found another job. The budget currently is at $47,000.00 with contributors’ being New Mexico State Forestry, both Soil and Water Conservation Districts, Upper Chama and East Rio Arriba, Northern Rio Grande RC&D Council and Bureau of Land Management. The county has opted not to contribute due to budgetary cuts this year. However, treatment of some kind has been on accomplished on 300 plus acres of New Mexico’s’ invasive and noxious plants.
As more new technology and information becomes available and is adopted by land managers, overall range conditions will improve.
D. Activities carried out to meet program goals and/or objectives.
1. Twelve new demonstration/research trials were installed during
2009-2010. Six mesquite trials were established in Chaves, Donna Ana and Eddy Counties. One saltcedar trial was established in Sierra County. One sand sagebrush/broom snakeweed trial was established in Chaves County. Two sand shinnery oak trials were established in Chaves and Roosevelt Counties. One prickly pear trial was established in Quay County. One creosote bush trial was established in Eddy County.
2. Fourteen existing demonstration/research trials were evaluated in 2009-2010. Trials on mesquite, saltcedar, cholla, Russian olive, sand sagebrush and sand shinnery oak were evaluated in Chaves, Eddy, Guadalupe, Lea, Sierra and Quay Counties.
3. The Brush and Weed Specialist was involved in planning and coordinating the 2009 and 2010 New Mexico Vegetation Management Association annual meeting in Albuquerque. The Specialist served as program chair and local arrangements chair. The Specialist attended 10 Board of Directors meetings.
4. The Brush and Weed Specialist was invited to speak at the Southwest Noxious Weed Short Course – presented two talks on brush control and saltcedar control.
5. The Brush and Weed Specialist provided information on brush and weed control at meetings in Colfax, Quay, Sierra and Union Counties.
6. This Specialist participated in a data review and research planning meeting in Uvalde, TX held by herbicide industry personnel.
7. The Brush and Weed Specialist participated in a mesquite field tour to educate NRCS/BLM personnel on aerial applications of herbicides to mesquite.
8. This Specialist served as Chair of the Departmental Promotion and Tenure Committee. He also served on the college wide Promotion and Tenure Committee.
9. This Specialist served as Chair of the Search Committee for the new Range Specialist.
10. Revisions of two publications were completed in 2009-2010. Juniper Control with Individual Plant Treatments and Mesquite Control: Aeiral Application were revised.
E. Resources obtained to meet program objectives
F. Evaluation results reflective of objectives
Private landowners and state and federal land managers adapted new information and technology in 2009-2010. This is revealed by the fact that approximately 750,000 acres of New Mexico rangeland and riparian areas were treated during the year. Species in the brush and weed control programs include: Saltcedar, mesquite, creosote bush, tarbush, African rue, Russian knapweed, Russian olive, leafy spurge, woolly locoweed, big sagebrush and sand shinnery oak.
D. Activities carried out to meet program goals and/or objectives.
1. Twelve new demonstration/research trials were installed during
2009-2010. Six mesquite trials were established in Chaves, Donna Ana and Eddy Counties. One saltcedar trial was established in Sierra County. One sand sagebrush/broom snakeweed trial was established in Chaves County. Two sand shinnery oak trials were established in Chaves and Roosevelt Counties. One prickly pear trial was established in Quay County. One creosote bush trial was established in Eddy County.
2. Fourteen existing demonstration/research trials were evaluated in 2009-2010. Trials on mesquite, saltcedar, cholla, Russian olive, sand sagebrush and sand shinnery oak were evaluated in Chaves, Eddy, Guadalupe, Lea, Sierra and Quay Counties.
3. The Brush and Weed Specialist was involved in planning and coordinating the 2009 and 2010 New Mexico Vegetation Management Association annual meeting in Albuquerque. The Specialist served as program chair and local arrangements chair. The Specialist attended 10 Board of Directors meetings.
4. The Brush and Weed Specialist was invited to speak at the Southwest Noxious Weed Short Course – presented two talks on brush control and saltcedar control.
5. The Brush and Weed Specialist provided information on brush and weed control at meetings in Colfax, Quay, Sierra and Union Counties.
6. This Specialist participated in a data review and research planning meeting in Uvalde, TX held by herbicide industry personnel.
7. The Brush and Weed Specialist participated in a mesquite field tour to educate NRCS/BLM personnel on aerial applications of herbicides to mesquite.
8. This Specialist served as Chair of the Departmental Promotion and Tenure Committee. He also served on the college wide Promotion and Tenure Committee.
9. This Specialist served as Chair of the Search Committee for the new Range Specialist.
10. Revisions of two publications were completed in 2009-2010. Juniper Control with Individual Plant Treatments and Mesquite Control: Aeiral Application were revised.
E. Resources obtained to meet program objectives
F. Evaluation results reflective of objectives
Private landowners and state and federal land managers adapted new information and technology in 2009-2010. This is revealed by the fact that approximately 750,000 acres of New Mexico rangeland and riparian areas were treated during the year. Species in the brush and weed control programs include: Saltcedar, mesquite, creosote bush, tarbush, African rue, Russian knapweed, Russian olive, leafy spurge, woolly locoweed, big sagebrush and sand shinnery oak.
Private land ranchers, state and federal agency personnel and county agents observed and evaluated new and existing field trials throughout the year and adopted new information and technology in 2009-2010. This is revealed by the fact that approximately 750,000 acres of New Mexico rangeland and riparian areas were treated during the year. Species included in the brush and weed control program include: saltcedar, mesquite, creosote bush, tarbush, African rue, Russian knapweed, Russian olive, leafy spurge, woolly locoweed, big sagebrush, sand shinnery oak and scrub oak.
More than 140 demonstration-research cooperators have assisted with this program by permitting research trials on land which they own or manage. Numerous chemical companies such as Dow Agro Sciences, Allegery and DuPont cooperate by providing herbicides for conducting research. State and federal agencies cooperating include the Bureau of Land Management, U. S. Forest Service, Natural Resources Conservation Service, NM State Parks, NM Game and Fish Department, NM Forestry Division, NM Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department, Carlsbad Irrigation District, Bureau of Reclamation, NM State Land Office, and several Soil and Water Conservation Districts and U. S. Fish and Wildlife Services.
More than 140 demonstration-research cooperators have assisted with this program by permitting research trials on land which they own or manage. Numerous chemical companies such as Dow Agro Sciences, Allegery and DuPont cooperate by providing herbicides for conducting research. State and federal agencies cooperating include the Bureau of Land Management, U. S. Forest Service, Natural Resources Conservation Service, NM State Parks, NM Game and Fish Department, NM Forestry Division, NM Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department, Carlsbad Irrigation District, Bureau of Reclamation, NM State Land Office, and several Soil and Water Conservation Districts and U. S. Fish and Wildlife Services.
Twelve new demonstration/research trials were established on seven species in six counties. County agents and private landowners were present or aware of the trials as they were established. The 2009 and 2010 New Mexico Vegetation Management Association Annual Conference included several speakers addressing current rangeland brush and weed topics. A total of 260 registered participants received new technology information on problem rangeland plants in New Mexico.
The Brush and Weed Control Program has been actively educating producers on a county level in all aspects of brush and weed control, including plant identification, proper control techniques, timing and equipment, mapping and development of weed control cooperatives. Grant, Guadalupe, Lincoln, Quay, Rio Arriba, Taos, Chaves, Mora, Harding and San Juan counties report activities reaching individually over 580 clientele.
The Brush and Weed Control Program has been actively educating producers on a county level in all aspects of brush and weed control, including plant identification, proper control techniques, timing and equipment, mapping and development of weed control cooperatives. Grant, Guadalupe, Lincoln, Quay, Rio Arriba, Taos, Chaves, Mora, Harding and San Juan counties report activities reaching individually over 580 clientele.
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.
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.