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98 Appendix 3: Weed Management Plan Outlines <br />2.2 Prioritizing Weed Species: Determine the management priority of each weed species on your property <br />by using the Alien Plants Ranking System outlined in Appendix 6 of this handbook, or by consulting your County <br />Weed Supervisor. Species that have the highest priority for management should receive a "priority check" in the <br />table, and should be controlled first. Use the information in the table about the weed's "life cycle" (emergence and <br />flowering) to coordinate the most efficient times and methods of control. (For example, several species on your list <br />maybe controlled best when cut or pulled aRer bolting but before seed producfion. If these species have similaz life <br />cycle chazacteristics they can all be controlled at the same time. Coordinating control methods in this manner will <br />help save time, resources andJor money.) Once you have prioritized the species that should be controlled, and <br />selected the most efficient time and method to control, you can write your weed control objectives. <br />Please see Weed Management Table 1. <br />2.3 Weed Control Objectives <br />1st Weed Control Objective: Inspect the site during the Sprinc~of 2003 with <br />Webb Callicutt (Delta County Weed Program Coordinator) and locate weed infestation <br />locations. Control or eliminate Canada Thistle. Please see Weed Mgmt. Table 2. <br />2nd Weed Control Objective: Inspect the site for Ox~e Daisy. Control or <br />eliminate Ox-eve Daisy if present at the site. <br />3rd Weed Control Objective: Inspect the site during the Sprin of 2003 for <br />Yellow Toadflax and other noxious weed sRecies that may be pr sen- a-the site, <br />Eliminate Yellow Toadflax and other noxious weeds at the site, if possible. <br />3.0 Evaluating Weed Control; After you have created weed control objectives and have began to control <br />the priority weed species on your property, you should evaluate the results of your control methods. This requires <br />follow-up visits to the areas where weeds were controlled and a re-assessment of the size and density of an <br />infestation. (For example, compaze the size of the infestation after a growing season has elapsed to the size before <br />control actions were initiated.) In most cases, the elimination of an infestation will take several years with multiple <br />treatments per yeaz to kill the plants and eliminate the bank of weed seeds in the soil. <br />Please see Weed Management Table 2. <br />