CASE STUDY: INVASIVE WEEDS
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Kelly Cooley – CoolPro Solutions Environmental ConsultingTransboundary Grasslands Workshop, Elkwater, AB January 19-20, 2016
CASE STUDY: INVASIVE WEEDS
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Personal Perspective: Grasslands
Perspectives On Grass ‘Management’
Invasive Weeds: What’s Worked
(And Not Worked)?
Lessons: Must AvoidMust Have
OVERVIEW (IF I HAVE TO…I GUESS)
Transboundary Grasslands Workshop, Elkwater, AB January 19-20, 2016
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PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE: GRASSLANDS
Transboundary Grasslands Workshop, Elkwater, AB January 19-20, 2016
Grew Up On ‘Mixed’ Farm & Ranch East Of Pincher Creek
‘Mixed’ Meaning We Raised Cattle On Lands My Dad Or His Farming Predecessors
Couldn’t ‘Improve’ Into Farm Production
Scotts Coulee (Native Prairie) Ran Through Our Home Place Just South Of Piikani
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PERSPECTIVES: GRASS ‘MANAGEMENT’
Transboundary Grasslands Workshop, Elkwater, AB January 19-20, 2016
Grasslands ‘Managed’ For Centuries By Elemental Forces & Nature (Including Us)
‘Management’ Has Slowly ShiftedFrom The LONG View To The Short View
For The Past Century Or So Grassland Has Been Managed In Increasingly Fragmented
Parcels Rather Than Natural Contours
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photo by Thomas Kitchin
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“Salting The Earth” – Surprisingly Cheap?
"Our rows were 40 inches wide … that's what it took for the horses [to walk] through…That way you could cultivate north and south or east and west. And weeds were a big problem
because they didn't have herbicides, so if you could go both ways then you could get most of your weeds." -- Dean Buller, Wessels Living History Farm – Farming In The 1920’s
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Photo Taken From Google Earth; Data From AESRD Staff And Kelly Cooley, SAWC
Nodding ThistleHays Provincial Grazing Reserve (Hays Maze)
MD of Taber
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Spotted Knapweed 2014 – Photo By Kelly Cooley – [email protected]
Spotted Knapweed
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Leafy Spurge North American Distribution And Native Range
Source: http://www.uni-potsdam.de/ausstellung-biologische-invasionen/big/03/map-07-2.jpg
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Introduced In 1827, Leafy Spurge Has Rapidly Spread Across The United
States And Canada, Infesting Nearly 3,000,000 Acres In 29 States And At
Least 4 Provinces.
Source: Saskatchewan Watershed Authority
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Tall Hawkweed (Left) Yellow Devil Hawkweed (Right)
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At This Point, It’s NOT EDRR
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WHAT HAS WORKED WELL AND WHY?
Transboundary Grasslands Workshop, Elkwater, AB January 19-20, 2016
Many Tools Developed To Prevent & Manage Grassland Weeds!
PreventionWeed Free Forage, Gravel, Soil
Seed & Equipment CleaningEcological Grazing Management Principles
Improved Riparian Management (Cows & Fish)
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Sources: Montana, Ohio, Idaho Departments of Agriculture
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Source: Montana Department of AgriculturePhoto By Kelly Cooley – [email protected]
Weeds Across Borders 2008
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Play Clean Go
Adaptable To Other Target Audiences
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Photo By Kelly Cooley 2004
Photo By Sheilah Kennedy, S-K Environmental - http://s-k-enviro.com/index.htm
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WHAT HAS WORKED WELL AND WHY?
Transboundary Grasslands Workshop, Elkwater, AB January 19-20, 2016
Many Tools Developed To Prevent & Manage Weeds!
Early Detection Rapid Response (EDRR)Digital Revolution–Species Info Highly Accessible
Mapping & Image Technology: Cheap & EasyInterjurisdictional Communication
Suite Of Management Tools Available
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Source: Felix Pharand-Deschenes/ SPL/ Barcroft Media
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WHAT HAS WORKED WELL AND WHY?
Transboundary Grasslands Workshop, Elkwater, AB January 19-20, 2016
Tools To Contain – Reduce - Eradicate (?)Mechanical Control (Large & Small Equipment)Cultural Control ( Graz ing , Fert i l ity, Com peti t ive Plant ing , F i re )
Biological Control (Insects, Mammals, Biota)Herbicides (No Longer Viewed As Magic Bullet)
Key Is To Use These Tools Individually And In Combination On A Site Specific Basis
(Integrated Management)
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Photo CTV News
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Diffuse Knapweed – City of Lethbridge August 2012 – Prior to Fire
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Diffuse Knapweed – City of Lethbridge After Sept 2012 Fire
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Tom Heutte, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org
INVASIVE CHEATGRASS (DOWNY BROME): ADAPTED TO FIRE, MOVING NORTH
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WHAT HASN’T WORKED SO WELL AND WHY?
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Competition For GrasslandDemand For Multiple, Often Incompatible ‘Usage’
Pressure To ‘Do More With Less’Overgrazing, ‘Cheaper’ AKA Weedy Forage
Shor t Term Economics Trumps Long Term EcologyIndustrial, Agricultural, & Recreational Cohabitation
Failure To Use Suite Of Prevention & Management Tools
Recipe For Introduction & Spread Of Invasives
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LESSONS: “MUST AVOID”
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Isolationist Thinking
‘Quick Fix’ Grassland ‘Management’
Ignoring Lessons From Our Past Mistakes
Trying To Convert It All To Cropland
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LESSONS: “MUST HAVE”
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Interjurisdictional Approach
Learn, Understand, Remember, Use, TeachRespect For Grasslands
Learn, Understand, Remember, Use, Teach Integrated Invasive
Prevention & Management
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"When Dealing With Weeds, Our Failures Are Obvious, And
Our Successes Invisible."
Dr. Richard Old, XID Services Ltd.
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Thank You!Kelly Cooley
CoolPro [email protected]
January 20, 2016
CASE STUDY: INVASIVE WEEDS
Transboundary Grasslands Workshop, Elkwater, AB January 19-20, 2016