Plumas & Sierra Counties WMA

 

Chair: Jennifer Wiley, Plumas-Sierra Counties Department of Agriculture

General contact: Jennifer Wiley, 530-283-6149,  jenniferwiley@countyofplumas.com

Mapping contact: Jennifer Wiley, 530-283-6149

Meetings: Annually at the Plumas Sierra County Fairgrounds Mineral Building.

 

Outreach Summary:

   Brochures

   Events

  • Seminars and workshops for local landowners
  • Weed tours are held annually
  • Weed information booths at county events

   Media

  • Local press releases.

Project Highlights:

   Noxious weed roadside treatments

  • Roads throughout the WMA are mapped and treated for yellow starthistle, tall whitetop, spotted knapweed, rush skeletonweed, and scotch broom. Some treatment also occurs on private lands. CalTrans and the CHP participates in the project by providing traffic control.

   Plumas/Sierra mapping program

  • The WMA continually maps all known and newly discovered sites of CDFA rated noxious weeds throughout the two counties. They use geographic software for mapping, and all the data collected is entered and updated in Calflora.

Organizations on WMA’s MOU

  • Bureau of Land Management – Eagle Lake and Carson City  District Office
  • California Department of Transportation (CalTrans), Districts 2
  • Collins Pine (timber company)
  • Feather River Land Trust
  • Feather River RCD
  • Natural Resources Conservation Service
  • Plumas County Public Works
  • Plumas-Sierra Cattlemen
  • Plumas-Sierra UCANR Cooperative Extension
  • Plumas-Sierra Farm Bureau
  • Sierra County Public Works
  • Sierra Pacific Industries (timber company)
  • Sierra Valley RCD
  • Plumas Corp.
  • Plumas Fire Safe Council
  • US Forest Service – Plumas, Lassen, Tahoe, Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest

Other regular participants

  • Other local landowners