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II Appendix 3; Weed Management Plan Outlines 97 UK.Te~ a~a.~~2.5 Weed Management Plan Outline FEB 18.2003 For Small Properties Division of Minerals and Geology Purpose: This is a simplified weed management template that is specifically designed for small properties/areas. It is designed to help landowners discover which weed species they have on their property and help them develop a plan to manage weeds that aze high priorities. It is intended for a landowner's personal use and is not designed to "market" or "justify" a weed management plan to a boazd or organization. Date Jan. 31, 2003 Name of Landowner or Property united Companies - Paonia Plant site, Pit 3 and 4D Pit Approximate Size of Property 30 acres 1.0 Management Goals: Management goals describe the purpose/use of the property and what you aze trying to achieve. Having cleaz management goals is key to developing a weed management plan. (A management goal may be to produce rangeland forage to support acow-calf operation and to eliminate weeds that aze poisonous or troublesome to livestock. Another management goal maybe to restore an area with native vegetation and promote wildlife habitat.) Management Goal(s): r.nritr•ril waadc at tha city during tha Iifa of npp~-atinnc at the e noxious weed species if raossible. 2.0 Weed Control Objectives: Objectives are derived from your management goals. They are formed by inventorying the weeds you have on your property, determining how they affect your management goals (For example, does the weed reduce forage? poison livestock? or crowd out native species?), and determining the most efficient ways to control those weeds. Sometimes a weed control objective will be to simply contain an infestation so that it does not become a problem, or to keep certain weeds off of your property. Knowing which weed species occur on your property and where they aze located is very important in developing control priorities. Weed species vary considerably ta the threat that they pose to the resource values of the property. In addition, weed species vary greatly in their susceptibility to control measures. Thus, weed species that pose the greatest threat to achieving the management goals for the property and which can be most easily controlled aze the highest priority for management. To create weed control objectives for your weed management plan, first seazch your property for weeds (if you have not already done so), then fill out the attached Weed Management Table. 2.1 Weed Management Table (see table 2.1): 1) Search the property and fill in columns 1-3 in the table paying particular attention to which weed species are present on your property, how large the infestations are, and where on the property they are located. 2) Read the weed species profiles for the species you identified and fill out columns 4-7 in the table. These weed profiles are found in the Appendix to this guidebook. 3) Move on to Section 2.2 to determine the management priority of each weed species.