Sacramento County WMA

Outreach Summary:

   Publications

• Top 10 weeds in the county

   Events

• annual booth at Earth Day
• annual Weed Awareness Week events

Project Highlights:

   Merten Ranch yellow starthistle control

• 100 acres of yellow starthistle were treated using a helicopter herbicide application, in a cost-share between the owner of Merten Ranch and the Sacramento WMA.

   Rossmoor Bar Restoration Project, American River Parkway

• The WMA funded the purchase of weed removal tools like weed wrenches for weed removal work on the American River Parkway. Weeds like yellow starthistle, red sesbania, and arundo were mapped using GPS and aerial photos. A controlled burn for yellow starthistle was also carried out. The WMA worked with the Sacramento Weed Warriors to complete the project.

   Noxious weeds outreach project

• The WMA created brochures identifying the top 10 weeds in the county, in partnership with the Sacramento Agriculture Department, and with input from all organizations in the WMA.

Organizations on WMA’s MOU

• California Department of Food and Agriculture
• California Department of Transportation (CalTrans), District 3
• Florin Resource Conservation District
• John Taylor Fertilizers, Division of Wilbur-Ellis Company
• Natural Resources Conservation Service, Elk Grove Service Center
• Sacramento County Agricultural Commissioner
• Sacramento County Department of Regional Parks, Recreation and Open Space
• Sacramento County Water Quality Division
• Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District
• Storm Water Utility District
• University of California Cooperative Extension
• U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Central California Area Office
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Other regular participants

• American River Parkway Foundation
• California Native Plant Society
• Effie Yeaw Nature Center
• The Nature Conservancy
• Sacramento Municipal Utilities District
• Sacramento County Parks
• Weed Warriors of the American River Parkway

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