I’m sure that the mosquitoes will not be THAT bad. But please join us as we take a look at several different projects around the Goose Lake Basin. Such items as Juniper treatment, Aspen stand enhancement, fish passage and to top it all off we will be having lunch at the Plush Store!
Please, RSVP to Anna or Grace by June 30.
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9:00 a.m. Reading Herbicide Labels & Personal Protective Equipment (Pete Schreder)
10:00 a.m. Equipment Calibration (James Baird)
10:30 a.m Adjuvant & Surfactants, Water Quality, and Drift Deposition. (Dan Comingore)
11:30 a.m. Lunch (Please bring a lunch)
12:30 p.m. ODA Update (Laurie Gordon)
1:30 p.m. Back to Basics (Laurie Gordon)
2:30 p.m. Grasshopper Control (Nevin DuPlessis)
This class counts towards five re-certification credits.
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Please see attached flyer for the Livestock for Landscapes weedy evening hosted by Harney County Cooperative Weed Management Area. All are welcome to attend and it will broaden the horizons on tools in the tool box for weed control options. Please pass around and share.
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Due to our lovely winter weather we’ve been having lately, it was decided to change the date of the weed wipe-out to June 4. Please get the word out.
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This Monday, May 3rd, Dan Durfey, Umatilla County Weed Supervisor and Dan Sharratt, ODA Regional Weed Specialist, confirmed a site of garlic mustard along the Umatilla River near Pendleton. They have done an initial delimitation survey and have detected other infestations. It currently looks like garlic mustard is spread over about 5,700 gross acres in the watershed and along about 20 miles of the Umatilla River .
This is a significant find since the next closest known infestation is in Multnomah County . This really expands the range of this weed, so central and eastern OR counties need to be on the lookout for garlic mustard particularly in riparian and forested areas. Here is a link to the ODA garlic mustard web profile that will provide additional information:
http://www.oregon.gov/ODA/PLANT/WEEDS/profile_garlicmustard.shtml
And lastly, if you need garlic mustard ID pamphlets, please contact us at ODA.
Thanks,
Tim Butler, Manager
ODA Noxious Weed Control Program
Garlic mustard along the Umatilla River near Pendleton.
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May 4, 2
010 from 6:00p.m.-8:45 p.m. at the Adel School Gym we will be hosting Noxious Weed and Herbicide Application Education.
The course covers:
6:00 p.m. Welcome (Pizza will be provided by Wilbur-Ellis.)
6:05 p.m. New invaders to the Warner Valley & Early Detection, Rapid Response. (Grace Haskins– Lake County CWMA)
6:35 p.m. Herbicide calibration and application 101 (Bob Stewart-Dow Agrosciences)
7:30 p.m. Meadusahead Control & Drift Deposition (Dan Comingore– Wilbur-Ellis)
8:15 p.m. Perennial Pepperweed Control using Cimmaron Xtra (Nevin DuPlessis-Dupont)
Posted in Education, Warner Valley | Tags: Adel, Education, Pizza
May 5 at 9:00 am Lake County Cooperative Weed Management Area will be hosting a weed education day. This class will be held at the Paisley Community Center.
The course outline is as follows:
8:50 a.m. Welcome
9:00 a.m. IPM for Puncturevine Control & DuPont products: Nevin Duplessis-DuPont
10:00 a.m. Biological control-Using natural enemies to control weeds: Eric Coombs
11:00 a.m. Medusahead Management: Dan Comingore– Wilbur-Ellis
11:30 a.m. Update on Aminopyralid Family Bob Stewart– Dow Agro Sciences
12:00 p.m. Lunch (On your own)
1:00 p.m. Drift Deposition: Dan Comingore– Wilbur– Eillis
1:30 p.m. Plant Identification & EDRR: Grace Haskins Lake County CWMA
2:30 p.m. Equipment Calibration 101: Bob Stewart– Dow Agro Sciences
Hope to see you there
The Lake County Cooperative Weed Management Area is hosting it’s 3rd Annual Noxious Weed Wipe-Out for Lakeview on May 22, 2010.
Scotch thistle, white top, or Dyer’s woad are the target species this year.
Do you have these on your property? If so, the Lake County Cooperative Weed Management Area will make you a deal and spray your entire town size lot for $30 within the urban growth boundary (no agriculture fields please).
A licensed herbicide applicator will be applying the herbicide on the day of the Noxious Weed Wipe-Out.
You can pick up applications at the OSU Extension office, Lakeview Soil and Water Conservation District or the Lake County Cooperative Weed Management Area office located in room 212 at the Marius Building.
Posted in Lakeview, Weed wipe-out | Tags: Lakeview Oregon, May, Weed wipe-out
LCCWMA Checking Account
May 2009 the LCCWMA started a checking account and began administering their own grants. The LCCWMA received a grant for $1,330 from Collins-McDonald to purchase a new computer, printer and QuickBooks to assist in managing financials of the LCCWMA organization.
Total funding from 2009: $175,054
Funding by source
On-the-ground funds
Assistance Agreements
The LCCWMA developed assistance agreements with the US Forest Service, BLM and Department of State Lands.
501(c)3
The LCCWMA officially became a 501(c)3 organizations at of November 3, 2009.
Weed Wipe-Out
Lakeview - For the Lakeview Weed Wipe-Out the LCCWMA sprayed 13 lots. This year the majority of the participants
Lakeview Weed Wipe-Out
sprayed for Hoary cress. Bret Arcularius was the licensed applicator and agreed to spray the lots at $30 per lot. Theherbicide (8 ounces of Telar) was donated by the Wilbur-Ellis company.
Paisley - For the Paisley Weed Wipe-Out the LCCWMA sprayed 7 lots. Some of the participants had our target species, but the majority of them had everything from burdock to common back yard weeds. It was a great day of education!
The Lake County CWMA has talked to many of individuals from Paisley, and it sounds like there will be a lot more participation in 2010!
Education
LCCWMA Weed Corner
The Lake County Cooperative Weed Management Area received sponsors and organized a weed corner in the Lake County Examiner for 26 weeks starting in March and ending in October. Each week the LCCWMA would highlight a noxious weed, and explain why this plant was harmful, and what the best method is for control. The following sponsored the weed corner:
Paisley Re-certification Class
The LCCWMA partnered with the OSU Extension Service to provide a re-certification class for the licensed applicators in the county. There were approximately 25 people who attended the class. The topics were as follows: Range and Pasture Restoration (Wilbur-Ellis), Calibration (Dow Agro Science), Adjutants and Surfactants 101 (Wilbur Ellis), Back to Basics (ODA), and ODA Department Update (ODA). The Class took place on May 6, 2009, at the Paisley Community Center.
Warner Valley Education
The Warner Valley educational program addressed noxious weeds in the Warner Valley, especially perennial pepperweed, hoary cress, Russian knapweed and Scotch thistle. The topics were as fol-lows: Vegetation Management in Wetland Areas (Wilbur-Ellis), Adjutants & Surfactants 101 (Wilbur-Ellis), Water Quality (Wilbur-Ellis), Calibration (Dow Agro Science), Milestone Herbicide, Where, What and How to use it. (Dow Agro Science), Sketch Mapping (BLM-Brennan Hauk), LCCWMA Current and Future Weed Control Projects (LCCWMA-Grace Haskins).
North Lake Natural Resource Education Program
The LCCWMA provided the noxious weed education for the Lake County Watershed Council Natural
Not a weed
Resource Education Program at Silver Creek. The LCCWMA led weed relays and educated the students about what the difference is between a common plant and a noxious weed.
Noxious Weeds Tour
The noxious weed tour took place on August 19, 2009 in the surrounding areas of Lakeview. There were ten people who attended the weed tour, which was a nice size group for discussion. The intent of the tour was to show the local landowners many new species that are moving into the Goose Lake Valley and to allow the Watershed Councils to show the community some of their efforts along Thomas Creek. Some of the areas the LCCWMA toured were as follows: Sulfur
cinquefoil at Auger Creek, toadflax on Thomas Creek, spotted knapweed at the industrial park and perennial pepperweed along Highway 395 south of Lakeview. Dan Comingore from Wilbur-Ellis joined the tour to give treatment
recommendations for each species.
Lake County Watershed Council & Lake County Cooperative Weed Management Area Noxious Weed Tour
Lake County Fair – Booth
The Lake County Cooperative Weed Management Area presented an educational booth at the Lake County Fair to assist in educating the public on noxious weeds. The booth featured new invasive species invading Lake County, the LCCWMA’s future EDRR program, plant identification, information about producing certified weed free hay, and
2009 Lake County Fair Booth
information about all current projects. The booth had information about herbicide, noxious weed books, noxious weed bags and fun goodies for the future weed eradicators. The booth placed second in the feature booth contest and was well attended by the public.
Mediterranean Sage Test Plots
The Lake County CWMA partnered with the Wilbur-Ellis Company to test the effectiveness of three new herbicides on Mediterranean sage. The three herbicides were Milestone, Dally and Tie Down. The test plots were done in one of the Leehman’s pivot corners in Summer Lake. The photos plots are being monitored by both Wilbur-Ellis and the Lake County CWMA through plant counts and photo point monitoring. Wilbur-Ellis donated all of the herbicide and application cost for the test plots.
All three herbicides seemed to be effective on Mediterranean sage, however we will monitoring the plots to see if the herbicides will have a residual effect on the plants, this monitoring will take place the spring of 2010.
Meadusahead Test Plots
The Lake County Cooperative Weed Management Area partnered with the Wilbur-Ellis Company to set up test plots showing the effectiveness of numerous proven herbicides including the following: Plateau, Journey, Landmark, and a Plateau/Milestone mix. These plots will be used for education for the local landowners to show them the way each of the herbicides work. The test plots are on Bill Roach and Julie Bryant’s (Summer Lake Inn). Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife donated seed for reseeding the plots and allowed the LCCWMA use their seeding equipment. The reseeding of the test plots will take place in early January. All of the herbicide was donated by the Wilbur-Ellis Company and the herbicide application was paid for by the Lake County Cooperative Weed management Area.
Warner Valley Sketch Mapping
Final Sketch Map - Warner Valley
The local BLM partnered with the Lake County CWMA to coordinate a large aerial digital sketch mapping project of the entire Warner Valley basin. The area covered from Coleman Valley to Blue Joint Lake North of Plush. The BLM funded the entire $29,477 project through BLM Oregon Cost Share Challenge. The sketch mapping provided the LCCWMA and the BLM with waypoints to the majority of the noxious weeds in the Warner Valley. This data has been used to find the small outlying infestations before they get too large and costly to control. This data has also allowed the LCCWMA and all partners a great coordination tool for planning entire watershed noxious weed management plan.
On the Ground Projects
Warner Valley Noxious Weed Control Project Funded by Oregon State Weed Board $32,766
October 2008– June 2009
Target Species: perennial pepperweed, hoary cress, Scotch thistle, Russian knapweed, and Canada thistle.
Participating Landowners: Dick Bradberry, John O’Keefe, Steve Gipson, George Shine, Cahill Ranch, LX Ranch, Mary Landa, Mike O’Sulivan, Kiely Brothers, Scott Abbe, Laird Ranch Fitz-gerald Partners, Tom Anderson, & Neil Flynn.
Acres: 1700
Warner Valley Summer Noxious Weed Control Funded by Oregon State Weed Board $14,099 & Oregon Mule Deer Foundation $2,500
March 2009– September 2009
Target Species: perennial pepperweed, hoary cress, Scotch thistle, Russian knapweed. Participating Landowners: Adel Water Users, Bret Arcularius, Jack Flynn, Leon Flick, Dennis Flynn, Sam, Farr, Shadlers, Myron Steward, Griners, Bill Cleland, Fitzgerald, Mike Garrett.
Acres: 500 Net/3,564 Gross
Warner Valley Cooperative Weed Control Project Funded by Oregon State Weed Board: $29,225
October 2009– June 2010
Target Species: perennial pepperweed, hoary cress, Scotch thistle, Russian knapweed. Participating Landowners: Crump Ranch, Sam Farr, Roaring Springs, Griners Ranch, Jason Jeager, Dick Bradbury, John O’Keefe, Mary Landa, Kiely Brothers Ranch, Tom Anderson, Fitzgerald, Neil Flynn.
Target Acres: 739 Net/2,000 Gross
Summer Lake Restoration Project
Funded by Oregon State Weed Board $12,774 & RAC $24,750
March 2009– September 2009
Target Species: Mediterranean Sage, Musk thistle, perennial pepperweed, diffuse knapweed, Canada thistle. Participating Landowners: Leehman, Calahan, Naiper, Linn, Summer Lake Inn, Harvey Ranch, & Withers Ranch.
Goose Lake Watershed Restoration
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (PTI): $ 33,428 2008– 2009
Target Species: Scotch thistle, Dyer’s woad, and Pheasant eye.
Participating Landowners: Jim Fitzpatrick, Ed Garrett Ranch, Dane Strause, Mickey Duggan, Mike Clemens, Jim Overton, Evans Daughters LLC, Amy Streck, Bob Warner, Shelby Julian, Carolyn Julian, John Sutfin, Bill Berry, John Stringer, Robin Vincent, McAdoo, Mike Garrett, Joe Matua, Shirley Friday, Glen Martin, Jennifer Jackson, Kathy Larson, Tom Griffith, Felder & Newarez, Jack Vernon, Matt Englhart, McFarland Ranch, ODFW, Barnes Cattle Co., Jorge Cobian, Lakeveiw Water Users, Lake County Fairgrounds, Cottonwood Cattle Company, Coley Neider, Fremont Sawmill, Max Dillauou, Abel Harrington, Lake County Cemetery District, Jim Spence and Randy Curnow.
Acres: 1,744
Fort Rock EDRR Project
Oregon State Weed Board: $ 9,564
October 2009-June 2010
Target Species: Hoary Cress, Spotted knapweed, perennial pepperweed, musk thistle, &Canada thistle.
Participating Landowners: Rick Warmington, Paul Bowers, Ken Kruse, Glad Fivecoat, Bruce Emmry, Teressa Cliff, Leo Griner, Simplot, Dinsdale, Tom O’Leary, and Keith Little.
Acres: 180
Note: The Fort Rock Valley relies on the high quality alfalfa hay production. This make controlling noxious weeds crucial for the local economy. Luckily there are not a lot of noxious weeds present in the northern portion of the county at this time.
Cooperators of the Lake County Cooperative Weed Management Area
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