Ventura WMA

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 June 12th, 2025

1 to 3 pm (In Person/Zoom)

Ventura County-Agriculture/Weights & Measures

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

  • Agenda Review
  • Introductions
  • The Role of Land Care and Nonnative Fuels in the 2023 Maui Fires-Clay Trauernicht PhD Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management University of Hawaii Manoa
  • Arundo-Post Fire Rapid Response-Santa Clara River-Bill Neil
  • Russian Knapweed Biocontrol-Apache Canyon-Nathan Mercer-CDFA
  • Top Biocontrol Targets-Results
  • Cal-IPC Symposium & Field Trips Update-Nicole Valentine Cal-IPC &Field Trip leaders
  • Wildflower and Weed Show-2025 Review and April 11th 2026 Event Planning

Clay Trauernicht has been an Extension Specialist in the faculty of Natural Resources and Environmental Management at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa since 2013, working on wildfire mitigation and ecosytem restoration to support communities, watershed programs, and landowners across Hawaii and Micronesia.

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Regular Participants

  • Ventura County Department of Agriculture/Weights and Measure
  • Ventura Land Trust
  • The Nature Conservancy
  • University of California Cooperative Extension
  • California Native Plant Society Channel Islands
  • Caltrans
  • Ventura RCD
  • Ojai Valley Land Conservancy
  • Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area-National Park Service
  • Conejo Open Space Conservation Agency
  • Santa Clara River Conservancy
  • California State Parks