Spearheading Weed Management Efforts : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Spearheading Weed Management Efforts / mypubliclands
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| 説明 | About a year ago, the Southern Nevada District Office became a founding member of the first Cooperative Weed Management Area that covers all of Southern Nevada. The group now consists of more than 25 different organizations, agencies, companies, private landowners and interest groups to work on weed issues across land jurisdiction boundaries and to pool resources for tackling these landscape-scale problems.The pilot project for the group was the fountaingrass initiative. While fountaingrass is a Category A noxious weed in Nevada, many businesses and private residences have used it in their landscaping and it has since been aggressively spreading onto surrounding wildlands including BLM and National Park Service managed lands. Grant funding from the National Wildlife Federation was used to grow native plants for an exchange incentive to those who remove fountaingrass from landscaping. Harrah's Laughlin was the first large company to participate in the exchange. After they removed all of the fountaingrass on the property, they received 150 native Alkali Sacaton plants to replace the removed noxious weeds. Building on the success of the Harrah’s Laughlin exchange, the first big volunteer day was held at the Big Bend of the Colorado State Park in Laughlin. About 45 volunteers from Harrah’s, Boy Scouts, the local high school as well as other individuals came out to remove the fountaingrass invading the shorelines. Harrah's donated water for the volunteers, Nevada Division of State Parks provided snacks and tools and Bureau of Reclamation produced educational materials and held the water release scheduled at Davis Dam so that water levels would be low enough for volunteers to work.Photo by BLM Nevada. |
| 撮影日 | 2015-02-24 11:15:42 |
| 撮影者 | mypubliclands |
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| カメラ | COOLPIX L830 , NIKON |
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