Rush Skeletonweed Task Force Summit
In February of 2007, ESPRI, along with the USDA Forest Service and the University of Idaho, contributed funding towards a one-day Rush Skeletonweed Task Force Summit.
Rush skeletonweed (RSW) is one of the most noxious rangeland weeds infesting the western United States. This plant, first introduced in the early 1900's, now occupies more than 6.5 million acres in the Pacific Northwest alone, with more than half of that acreage occuring in Idaho. On February 21, 2007 in Boise, ID, the Rush Skeletonweed Task Force hosted a summit on the management of rush skeletonweed in the western states. County weed superintendents, Cooperative Weed Management Area (CWMA) members, university researchers, and land managers from the US Department of Agriculture, BLM and Forest Service in Idaho, Oregon, and Montana gathered to discuss gaps in current RSW management practices. These gaps were then prioritized and incorporated into an implementation strategy to be used by RSW task force members as they serve the needs of land users and land managers in combatting the problem of RSW in the western U.S.
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Rush Skeletonweed — photo by Steve Dewey, Utah State University |
This page last reviewed February 2007