Still others have noticed that livestock appears to not have had enough to eat even though the pasture looks green. The anglers among us have memories of a struggle to access a great looking fishing hole through some kind of horrible, prickly weed. These examples, easily remembered and understood, are a good start. But the kind of appreciation, if you will, of noxious weeds in our lives that we would have you grasp is on a bit larger scale. They can render sports and recreation sites useless while destroying the businesses that serve them.
Weeds harm public health, crops, livestock, and the land.
Many of the items on your grocery list have damages or loss from noxious weeds already added into the price you pay at the register. Even with this said, our goal to bring you to a better understanding of the impact that weeds have is made more difficult by the size of the problem. Millions of acres of anything, especially weeds, are like millions of miles of ocean. It's not easy to wrap our reasoning around such large figures. By definition, a weed is simply a plant out of place.