General contact: John Beall Ventura County Agriculture/Weights and Measures    john.beall@ventura.org   805-665-7730

Formed: 2005 to 2014. Reformed in Fall of 2019.

Meetings: Quarterly-In Person/Zoom Meetings include a program speaker/presentation, participants sharing information on weed projects they are working.  Our goal is to encourage attendees to learn and share with each other Weed Management work in Ventura County.  We want to get to know each other and work cooperatively on weed management projects.   MOU-Available. New version of MOU under construction which will give us more structure.

 

Next Ventura County Weed Management Area Meeting 

Ventura County Weed Management Area Meeting

Thursday December 12^th, 2024  

1 to 3 pm

Ventura County Agricultural Commissioner’s Office

555 Airport Way Suite E Camarillo(off Pleasant Valley Rd)

Or by Zoom (see below)

• Agenda Review
• Intro/Announcements
• Prioritization Methods for Invasive Weeds; risk assessment, horizon scanning and other methods- Deah Lieurance

Asst. Professor of Invasive Species Science and Management

Dept. of Ecosystem Science and Management

Penn State University

• South Mountain Vegetation Monitoring Project-Kevin Mason-Fire Preparedness Coordinator-Ventura County Resource Conservation District
• Weed Biocontrol-Update-Russian Knapweed, Cape Ivy, Starthistles Madeline Holroyd and Calen Campos-UC Santa Barbara

Break-5 minutes

• New Weeds-Early Detection Rapid Response (EDRR)-Marco Cabrera VCAWM
• Funding/Grants

California Department of Food and Agriculture (Trevor Fox-CDFA)

• Wildflower and Weed Show (April 12, 2025) Update
• Next Meeting-(February 2025)-John B

 

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