The efficient and economical management of weeds is a major factor in the production of all crops, cultivated, as well as rangeland.
Noxious weeds are an economic and environmental problem requiring intensive long-term management.
Education and cooperation, rather than enforcement, are and will be the key to the success of the weed management program. The objective of the Weed Board will be to control, contain, and in some cases, eradicate noxious weeds and to maintain a vigilance for new and potential invasions of noxious weeds into the County. Toadflax Russian Knapweed Houndstongue Biological weed control is an evolving science. Many introduced weeds in the United States are not problems in their native lands but are merely members of their respective plant communities. Continued research in the field of biological control is needed to learn how a plant's natural enemies survive, the plant's response to natural enemies, how each is influenced by conditions and forces in the environment, and interrelationships between natural enemies and hosts.