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:

The Weed Wheel management strategies to prevent the spread of invasive weeds by preventing seed dispersal Simple instructions to create your Weed Wheel Download the PDF and print your Weed Wheel	"Establishing Weed Prevention Areas and Evaluating Their Impact"  - an academic poster presented at the Western Society of Weed Science annual meeting

July/August 2010

A Conceptual Framework for Preventing the Spatial Dispersal of Invasive Plants 

May 2010

 Ecological Principles for Invasive Plant Management (PDF)

April 2010

March 2010

Response of Bluebunch Wheatgrass and Medusahead to Defoliation (PDF)

Functional Group Responses to Reciprocal Plant Litter Exchanges between Native and Invasive Plant Dominated Grasslands (PDF) 

 February 2010

Implementing EBIPM takes you into the field with the the range ecologists and scientists and plant physiologists who've developed this decision-making process that offers science-based solutions to assist land and resource managers in applying treatments that work best for your specific situation.

These solutions offer the ability to fix what is ultimately causing the problem rather than just treating the symptoms of the problem.

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'Ecological Principles for Invasive Plant Management' guides you through the basic, scientific principles of dealing with invasive plants so you can stop treating symptoms and start treating the true causes of invasion.

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Or you can also download the PDF here

'Applying Ecologically-Based Invasive Plant Management: An Introduction and Overview' provides a look at the step-by-step method of managing invasive weeds using science-based solutions.

Click here to request your Free Copy Today.

You can also download the PDF here

For the additional Assessment Worksheets mentioned on page 10 of Applying EBIPM, click here

Adaptive Management for Invasive Annual Grasses guides you through the necessary steps to implement adaptive management on your land.

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Or click here to download the PDF.

For the additional data sheets mentioned on page 24 of Adaptive Management, click here.

Revegetation Guidelines for the Great Basin: Considering Invasive Weeds provides an in-depth, step-by-step guide to the processes and procedures of establishing desired plant species in the Great Basin Ecosystem.

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Or CLICK HERE to download the PDF.

The Weed Wheel
Start preventing the dispersal of invasive plants today!

Follow these simple instructions to create your own Weed Wheel now.
View the PDF and print your Weed Wheel here.
Or order your free Weed Wheel here.

The Weed Wheel is adapted from Fig. 2 of "A Conceptual Framework for Preventing the Spatial Dispersal of Invasive Plants" by Kirk Davies and Roger Sheley. 2007 Weed Science 55:178-184

The New 2010 Area-wide Project Informational Brochure 

Download the PDF here

or click here to email and order mulitple copies.

More information about this workshop is coming soon!

Register for the workshop here.

For more information, contact:

Dr. Joe DiTomaso- CE Specialist
University of California – Davis 
Phone: 530-754-8715
Email: Jmditomaso@ucdavis.edu  

or

Dr. Mark Weltz- Research Rangeland Management Specialist 
USDA- ARS Reno
Phone: 775-784-6057 ext. 229
Fax: 775-784-1712
Email: mark.weltz@ars.usda.gov  

Download the PDF now:

Ecological Principles for Invasive Plant Management 

Guides you through the basic principles of dealing with invasive plants so you can stop treating symptoms and start treating the true causes of invasion.

Order your free copy today!

Check out our other user guidelines and products

Download the PDF now:
 
Applying Ecologically-Based Invasive Plant Management: An Introduction and Overview 

Provides a look at the step-by-step method of managing invasive weeds using science-based solutions to start treating the true causes of invasion.

 or order your free copy today!

For the additional Assessment Worksheets mentioned on page 10 of Applying EBIPM, click here

Check out our other user guidelines and products

What is EBIPM?  

Over many decades, rangeland managers have focused weed management on controlling weeds with little regard to either the existing or the resulting plant community.  The approach is simplistic in that only the symptoms (weeds) are treated without regard to why the weeds are there to begin with.  Future weed management must be based on our understanding of the biology and ecology of rangeland ecosystems.

Sustainable invasive plant management requires restoring diverse plant communities that function in maintaining ecological processes.  In order to achieve diverse, desired plant communities invasive plant management must modify the processes and mechanisms directing plant community dynamics and structure.

EBIPM – the acronym for Ecologically-based invasive plant management is a process based model for weed managers to implement site specific integrated weed management strategies to address ecological processes.  EBIPM combines state and transition models and successional management models to make the best decisions for a given areas.  It can be used for any weed species but for this area-wide project EBIPM will be demonstrated for cheatgrass and medusahead.

The EBIPM model was developed based on the 3 general causes of succession:

• Site Availability –In order for succession to occur, a niche must be available for desired species and unavailable for undesirable ones.
• Species Availability – Once a site is available for desired species, they must be occupied before the weeds establish.  Processes that must be exploited include seed dispersal, and vegetative reproduction.
• Species Performance –When sites for desired species are created and they become established factors that favor the desired species must be considered, such as grazing, disease, resource availability, etc.