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5 Priorities <br />5.1 Provide education and training, including technical assistance to private <br />landowners on noxious weed management per §35-5.5-108.5, {3)(b)(I). <br />5.2 Manage noxious weeds on all county-owned and maintained lands, including <br />right-of-ways and gravel pits, per §35-5.5-108.5 and §35-5.5-112. Under the Act, <br />no local goveming body shall provide for or compel the eradication of list A <br />species and populations of list B species designated for eradication or list B <br />noxious weeds on private or public property without first applying the same <br />measures to any land or rights-of-way owned or administered by the local <br />goveming body that aze adjacent to the property. <br />5.3 Assist landowners in management of noxious weeds, including initiating and <br />maintaining communications with landowners who aze affected by list A species <br />and list B species designated for eradication by the commissioner, per §35-5.5- <br />108.5 (3)(a) C.R.S. <br />5.4 Develop recommended management criteria for county designated noxious <br />weeds, per §35-5.5-107 C.R.S. These management criteria will be made available <br />to the public at the Routt County weed management office as they are developed. <br />5.5 Cooperate with other governments in management of noxious weeds <br />5.6 Implement and enforce the Colorado Noxious Weed Act as it pertains. to . <br />unincorporated Routt County per §35-5.5-108.5, 109, 110, 112 C.R.S. and 8 CCR <br />1203-19. <br />5.7 Map noxious weed infestations within the county, with the goal of finding new <br />infestations, monitoring control of noxious weeds and to meet the requirements of <br />8 CCR 1203-19. <br />5.8 Detect and eradicate new infestations of noxious weed species, as defined by the <br />Colorado Noxious Weed Act. Most weed species, if detected and managed early <br />in the infestation cycle, can be effectively controlled. <br />6 Management Strategy <br />The Routt County Weed Control Department will manage noxious weeds following the <br />principles of integrated weed management, per the Act. An integrated weed management <br />program seeks to create desirable plant communities utilizing a variety of methods to <br />manage noxious weeds. Such methods include, but aze not limited to: biological, <br />chemical, cultural, and mechanical control techniques. Integrated weed management also <br />incorporates education, prevention, and good land stewazdship. <br />4 <br />