Then we move on to more interesting lessons. However, sometimes we face more difficult lessons because we didn't learn the easier ones. Today we face a crisis in most of the West because we were slow to learn lessons for successful prevention of weed invasion. The crisis got worse and the lessons more difficult when we failed to learn the lessons for locating and eradicating every first weed of each invasive species. In too many places, communities now face the lessons for how to contain established and spreading populations and how to recover the tremendous economic losses after land uses are no longer possible or productive.
Adaptive management is the continual process of learning by doing and then doing better next time.
People learn to become successful in invasive weed management only by engaging in it, monitoring their projects and progress, and using the written monitoring record and their personal knowledge based on experience. All the monitoring information described in this fact sheet is of no value unless it is used to better plan and actively engage in invasive weed management. Noxious Weed Management Planning Guidelines Workbook . Blueprint For Success, Weed Management Training Materials . The University of Nevada employs only United States Citizens and aliens lawfully authorized to work in the United States.