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Date: July 12, 2001
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Guide to Noxious Weed Prevention Practices
Regional Foresters, Directors; RHWR, MEM, WSA, WFRP, EMC, VMPR, L,
ENG, FAM, CF, FHP
Enclosed is the Forest Service Guide to Noxious Weed Prevention Practices (Guide). The Guide
provides management direction in the form of goals along with prevention practices that range
from general to specific. The practices included in this Guide will help prevent noxious weeds
from becoming established or help reduce the spread of noxious weeds that are already
established.
The practices contained in this document are guidance. We will update these practices as better
information becomes available, particularly through your use and application of them. Consider
these practices for inclusion in programmatic documents and for planning and project
implementation. At some future time we anticipate reevaluating them for inclusion in the
Directives System.
Our field personnel asked that these practices be developed, and they were instrumental in
making it happen. Developing, compiling and refining comprehensive noxious weed prevention
practices have taken two years. This document is the culmination of a lot of hard work by many
dedicated people within the Forest Service and our cooperators. It is clear in reading through
these practices that everyone has a vital role to play to help prevent the spread of noxious weeds.
/s/ Ann M. Bartuska
ANN M. BARTUSKA
Director, Forest & Rangelands
Encl: WPPs
Cc:
Jim Olivarez
Tom McClure
Gene Onken
Curt Johnson
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Cheri Roher
Gary Smith
Levester Pendergrass
Christine Frisbee
Mary Stensvold
Rita Beard
Van Elsbernd
Bruce Fox
Dave Wheeler
Chuck Quimby
Berwin Brown
Bob Hamner
Steve Bishop
Nancy Phelps
Ross McElvain
David Thomas, FHP
Sheila Andrus
Alison Hill
Buck Latapie
Dallas Emch
Dave Barone
Jbmiller01@fs.fed.us
Joel Krause
Joseph Carbone
Larry Stritch
Leslie Sekavec
Max Copenhagen
Melissa Hearst
Darwin Richards
Gordon Schofield
Richard Fitzgerald
Russ Lafayette
Richard Lindenmuth
Deborah Hayes, USDA
Rebecca Bech, USDA
Alan Tasker
USDA, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
4700 River Road, Unit 134
Riverdale, MD 20787-1237
Beth Sauerhaft
USDA, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
P O Box 2890
Room 6158
Washington, DC 20013
Gina Ramos
Bureau of Land Management
1849 C Street, NW
MS 314LS
Washington, DC 20240
Randy Westbrooks
USGS
233 Border Belt Dr.
Whiteville, NC 28472
Mike Ielmini
USFWS, Nat’l Wildlife Refuge System Hdqts
4401 N. Fairfax Dr.
Arlington, VA 2203
Gary Johnston
National Park Service
1849 C Street, NW
Room 3223-MIB
Washington, DC 20240
Pete Egan
Armed Forces Pest Mgmt. Board
Forest Glen Secion – WRAMC
Washington, DC 20307-5001
Roy Arnold
US Bureau of Reclamation
1849 C Street, NW
Washington, DC 20240
Faith Campbell
American Lands Alliance
726 7th St., SE
Washington, DC 20003
Nancy Benton
The Nature Conservancy
4245 N. Fairfax Dr.
Arlington, VA 22203
Jason Campbell
National Cattlemen’s Beef Association
1301 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Suite #300
Washington, DC 20004
Gabriela Chavarria
Nat’l Fish & Wildlife Foundation
1120 Connecticut Ave., NW
Suite 900
Washington, DC 20036
Tim Playford
National Coordinator Invasive Plant Management
Dow AgroSciences LLC
10521 Balroyal Court
Fishgers, IN 46038
Dr. George Beck
Colorado State University
Dept of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management
Ft. Collins, CO 85023-1177
Deen Boe
Society for Range Management
106 Serendipity Lane
Crimora, VA 24431
Sheilah Kennedy
North American Weed Management Association
Okanogan County Weed Board
P.O. Box 4
Okanogan, WA 98840
Rod Hedberg
Director, Weed Science Society
5612 McLean Dr.
Bethesda, MD 20814