Noxious Weeds - Wallowa Canyonlands Partnership
Become a Weed Bounty Hunter Wallowa Resources wants your help in finding new noxious weed sites. Report a new site and win $200! Click Here to Learn More |
Noxious weeds are wreaking havoc across the west, taking over native habitats, displacing native species, impacting wildlife, ruining soil conditions and reducing grazing potential. The Wallowa Canyonlands Partnership (WCP) protects the ecological and economic values of Hells Canyon along the Imnaha, Lower Grande Ronde and part of the Snake Rivers from invasion and degradation by noxious weeds using Integrated Weed Management methods. WCP coordinates high priority weed treatment and restoration across jurisdictional boundaries on public and private lands in the area.
The WCP area is primarily canyon country with steep and rugged terrain. Natural and human-caused factors put the area at high risk for invasion by non-native plant species. This Program focuses primarily on the river corridors because the rivers themselves are significant vectors of weed seed transportation. Floods bring weeds downriver and create a seed bed, thus spreading weeds throughout the watershed. Preventing noxious weeds from taking hold in riparian areas is a high priority.
Working with private landowners, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service, Oregon Department of Agriculture, Wallowa County, The Nature Conservancy and others, this program treats over 1,500 acres of weeds per year and manages many biological control, early detection, assessment, education, prevention and restoration projects. The WCP puts local contractors to work, contributing an average of $100,000 per year into the local economy. The real success here is how neighbors have come together to treat noxious weeds across their property lines, so that everyone benefits.
Click here to find out more about how Wallowa Canyonlands Partnership controls noxious weeds.
Become a Bounty Hunter!
Wallowa Resources wants your help in finding new noxious weed sites. Report a new site of one of the following weeds and win $200!
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| Check out that huge thistle! Members of the Oregon Youth Conservation Corps chop Scotch thistle in the Grande Ronde corridor. WR works with many groups to control the weed invasion. |
• Rush Skeletonweed
• Leafy Spurge
• Meadow Hawkweed
• Spotted Knapweeed
• Orange Hawkweed
• Whitetop
Download your Bounty Hunter Packet for rules and instructions, maps
and weed identification, using the links below. Or stop by Wallowa Resources
to pick up a packet. For more information call 541-426-8053.
Download Your Bounty Hunter Packet!
Maps: these are not current but will be updated as they become available
Lower Grande Ronde Noxious Weed Program Area Map
Rush Skeletonweed Known Oregon Site Maps
Rush Skeletonweed Known Washington Site Maps
Leafy Spurge Known Site Maps
Meadow Hawkweed Known Site Maps
Spotted Knapweed Known Oregon Site Maps
Spotted Knapweed Known Washington Site Maps
Whitetop Known Site Maps
Orange Hawkweed Known Site Maps
Identification
Rush Skeletonweed Identification
Leafy Spurge Identification
Meadow Hawkweed Identification
Spotted Knapweed Identification
Orange Hawkweed Identification
Whitetop Identification (eligible for bounty in Grande Ronde only)
Common Bugloss Identification (eligible for bounty in Grande Ronde only
You can help! Spot weeds? Report them!
Help control our noxious weed invasion by learning to identify weeds
and reporting weed sites. For more information about weed control, click
here. Please contact your local weed managers with questions or to report
a weed sighting:
Contacts
Wallowa Resources………………………(541)
426-8053
mark@wallowaresources.org
Wallowa County Weed Control………………(541) 426-3332
wcweeds@co.wallowa.or.us
Wallowa County Extension Service………(541) 426-3143
john.williams.1@oregonstate.edu
Wallowa Whitman National Forest …………(541) 426-5535
lddawson@fs.fed.us
