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Best Management Practices for Non-Chemical Weed Control manual

February 14, 2021
By Gale Perez
Best Management Practices for Non-Chemical Weed Control This manual provides comprehensive descriptions of 21 commonly used non-chemical weed control techniques and of biological control agents for 18 weed species/species groups that will help you as a practitioner treat weeds more effectively.
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Webinars :: SCIENCEx Invasive Species

February 11, 2021
By Gale Perez
Thanks to Jim Farrar for sharing the announcement below. There are talks on CHEATGRASS and VENTENATA on Feb. 26. **************** SCIENCEx Invasive Species webinars US Forest Service is hosting a week-long series of webinars on invasive pests: https://www.fs.fed.
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Managing Weeds in Grasslands and Rangelands in the Context of Fire in CA
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Managing Weeds in Grasslands and Rangelands webinar

February 8, 2021
By Gale Perez
If you missed the Managing Weeds in Grasslands and Rangelands in the Context of Fire in California webinar on Nov. 18, 2020 (9 AM-12 noon PST), you're in luck. We have the recordings of each presentation here.
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“If it’s growing close to your house, there’s a potential it could send its rhizomes and break through your foundation,” says Jatinder Aulakh, an assistant weed scientist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. Photo from Japanese Knotweed Solutions, Ltd.

Oh, No, Not Knotweed!

February 1, 2021
By Gale Perez
Thanks to our friend at Cornell (Lynn Sosnoskie) for sharing the article,"Oh, No, Not Knotweed!" by Henry Grabar from the Pocket Worthy website. Oh, No, Not Knotweed! It's been over four years since I bought hypodermic needles at a CVS, squatted in my backyard, and drew them full of glyphosate.
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