NOXIOUS WEED CONTROL AND SEEDING ESTABLISHMENT EDUCACTION ON GOSHUTE TRIBAL LANDS
Extension Education
Linden Greenhalgh
Agriculture/4-H Youth Agent
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY
TOOELE
Abstract
\r\n The Tooele County Weed Board has taken an education and assist approach to noxious weed control. Instead of investigation and enforcement, weed workers conduct regular education and assistance programs to help land owners in control efforts. With grants from Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education and Utah Department of Agriculture and Food an education and restoration project was carried out on the Confederated Tribe of the Goshute Reservation in Ibapah, Utah. Project objectives were to: 1) Educate personnel in weed control and successful seeding establishment, and 2) Improve tribal land through noxious weed control and desirable species establishment. Two weed workshops, weed identification and weed control methods and a weed sprayer calibration clinic were conducted. Eighty acres of irrigated land were selected for restoration based on infestation with problem weeds including “”Carduus nutans”” L, “”Cirsium vulgare””, “”Cirsium arvense”” and “”Cardaria draba””. Herbicide spray treatments took place in 2009, and 2010 followed by seeding with “”Festuca ovina”” and “”Dactylis glomerata”” in October 2010. Production of grass hay was 31 and 72 tons before and after restoration, respectively. With grass hay in Utah valued at $99/ton in 2010 and $151 in 2011, hay produced on project acres before and after restoration was worth $3,069 and $10,872, respectively, an increase of $7,803. Total project cost was $12,020. Project impact was not only a significant increase in forage production and value but restoration of land previously unusable.
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Authors: L.K. Greenhalgh, J.R. Caldwell
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Greenhalgh, L. Extension Associate Professor, Utah State University, Utah, 84074
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Caldwell, J. Weed Supervisor, Tooele County, Utah, 84074