Mendocino Coast Cooperative Weed Management Area

Education and Outreach Brief Presentation

• Accomplishments
  1. Fort Bragg public meeting held March 15, 2006, with attendance of 5 locals;
  2. Tabled at Environmental Dinner March 20, 2006;
  3. Met with Renee and Lorraine about intern opportunities for High School students and newspaper article series;
  4. MCWMA website updated to include an Get Involved page, with subheadings for
     • Survey Roadside Weeds, including weed ID photos and links
     • Develop and Implement an Integrated Weed Management Plan for Your Own Property, including an overview of IPM
     • Contribute to Weed Management on Public Lands, including Adopt-A-Highway & Road forms
  5. prepared display for AV wildflower show: Roadside Survey
  6. administrative support to Guil Dye on gorse Caspar committee
• Education and Outreach Workgroup meeting held April 6, 2006 ;
  • Proposed sites evaluated for educational value. Highway 1 & 20 site preferred for visibility, accessibility and generality of issues faced. The site has potential to demonstrated different approaches to weed debris disposal.
  • Next Education and Outreach Workgroup meeting to be determined.
• Plans
  1. Website updates: reorganize and provide more resources- links, scan more forms, such as State Parks volunteer form and Mendocino Adopt-A-Road Brochure
  2. Letters of Invitation to join MCWMA will be mailed to stakeholders in the Caspar, Mendocino and Gualala regions.
     The Memorandum of Agreement and contact information for the local Point-of-Contact will be included in the mailing.
  3. All MCWMA meetings will be announced in the coastal newspapers, on radio and on the website.
  4. Flyers will be posted on community bulletin boards for public meetings only.
  5. An MCWMA table will be out at the Anderson Valley Wildflower Show, April 29, 30, 2006.
• Needs (if you can assist with any of these items, please contact Tara Athan at coord@mcwma.org)
  1. Volunteer needed for MCCET video training.
  2. Photos and locations of local examples of the species on the roadside survey form.
  3. Names of stakeholders for mailing list of letter of invitation to join MCWMA.
  4. Additional content for website, especially news.
  5. Editing of Spanish-language version of website.
  6. Newsletter content.