Weed Prevention Areas
Preventing weed invasions is the most cost and time effective way of managing invasive species because prevention is a proactive approach.
What are Weed Prevention Areas?
Often part of a Coordinated Weed Management Area, Weed Prevention Areas are made up of unified community members sharing common goals to protect land resources from invasive weeds through coordinated implementation of group- designed integrated plans of prevention, early intervention, and ecosystem management.
These plans developed though a series of meetings include:
- A plan for mapping areas to delineate weed-free areas, areas at risk for invasive species and those areas with infestations of invasive species
- Developing and implementing prevention strategies
- Developing and implementing educational programs
- Developing and implementing early detection and alert systems
- Designing eradication programs for new infestations
Some tools to help your weed prevention efforts in your community:
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The Weed Wheel |
"Establishing Weed Prevention Areas and Evaluating Their Impact" - an academic poster presented at the Western Society of Weed Science annual meeting |
