California, Smoke Creek

Location: Lassen County in northeast California

Site Manager and Partners:

Joe DiTomaso
CE Specialist - UC Davis
phone #:530-754-8715
email: Jmditomaso@ucdavis.edu

Mark Weltz
Research Rangeland Mgmt. Specialist
phone #:775-784-6057 ext. 229
email: mark.weltz@ars.usda.gov

Rob Wilson
Weed Ecology/Cropping Systems Farm Advisor
phone #:530-251-8132
email: rgwilson@ucdavis.edu
website: http://celassen.ucdavis.edu

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Aerial application of demonstration plots in the Smoke Creek
watershed, October 12, 2008

California Watershed Map

Click here to download the
Smoke Creek Watershed Info Sheet (PDF)

Timing of Low Rates of Glyphosate for control of Medusahead in Sagebrush Scrub

(Poster provided by Joe DiTomaso.)

Learn more about medusahead and cheatgrass control options from Joe DiTomaso.

--------------------Academic Posters---------------------

"Control of Downy Brome (Bromus tectorum) and Medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae) in Rangelands" - Controlling invasive annual grasses without damaging perennial grasses or sagebrush

"Evidence of Allelopathic Interference in an Exotic Invasive Grass, Medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae)" - Do medusahead seeds, awns and/or litter produce biochemicals that negatively influence its competitors?

"Control of Medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae) and barbed goatgrass (Aegilops triuncialis) with precision defoliation" - Controlling medusahead and goatgrass using mechanical defoliation with precise timing and intensity