Mendocino Coast Cooperative Weed Management Area

Projects Workgroup Brief Presentation

• Accomplishments
  1. Invasive Plant Control Activites in the MCWMA: December, 2005
     • Broom removal, Albion Ridge Rd and County Transfer Station, 2+ volunteer hours
     • Broom and Monterey Pine removal, Van Damme State Park, 16+ volunteer hours
     • Invasive Plant Removal, 4+ volunteer hours, Big River State Park, 12/17/05
     • Gorse removal in Caspar by CCC, funded by CalTrans, 1088 paid hours
     • Mendocino County Department of Agriculture, 3 paid hours invasive plant survey and eradication
     • Mendocino County Transportation has agreed to provide rule-of-thumb guidelines for determining the width of the County right-of-way along roadsides. Also, they are looking into adapting their Adopt-A-Road program to include invasive plant removal activities.
  2. Projects Workgroup meeting held January 10, 2006 [Minutes];
     • Draft Strategic Plan prepared (contributed to Draft merged from all workgroups);
     • Tasks assigned to determine the applicability of Department of Agriculture Vegetation Destruction Permits for burnpiles of debris from invasive plant removal projects, and the potential of locating burnpiles on State Park property, on a project-specific basis.
     • Next Projects Workgroup meeting Tuesday, February 28 10AM-12noon at JDSF Learning Center.
• Plans
  1. Hire a student intern to assist in data entry for invasive plant management information.
  2. Consider starting a demonstration Adopt-A-Road or -Highway invasive plant control project.
• Needs (if you can assist with any of these items, please contact Tara Athan at coord@mcwma.org)
  1. Organizations with liability insurance coverage willing to sponsor volunteer invasive plant removal events.
  2. Information on any other ways coverage of volunteer invasive plant workers could be addressed.
  3. Reporting on a monthly basis paid or volunteer invasive plant control activites (using the In-Kind Reporting Form ).