The Inland Mendocino Cooperative Weed Management Area (IMCWMA) is hosted a series of meetings in October and November of 2007 to raise awareness and increase participation in invasive weed management.

Each meeting will feature an invited speaker and conclude with a poster session including refreshments and opportunities to obtain more information about weed management from a number of experts.

The first three events, scheduled for October, are

Tuesday, October 16, 7 - 9 PM, Willits

California Vernal Pools and Plant Invasion

Featured Speaker: Sherry Adams, Restoration Ecologist, Audubon Canyon Ranch

Willits Library, 390 E Commercial

Wednesday, October 24, 7 - 9 PM, Ukiah

Giant Reed (Arundo donax) removal in the Russian River watershed

Featured Speaker: Noelle Johnson, Circuit Rider Productions, Inc.

Mendocino County Department of Agriculture, 890 N. Bush 

Monday, October 29, 7 - 9 PM, Ukiah

Vines and Ovines

Featured Speaker: John Harper, University of California Cooperative Extension, Ukiah

Mendocino County Department of Agriculture, 890 N. Bush

The series is partially funded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and co-sponsored by the IMCWMA Partners, including Mendocino Fire Safe Council, Mendocino County Farm Bureau, California Native Plant Society-Sanhedrin Chapter, the Mendocino County Department of Agriculture and Mendocino County Resource Conservation District.

See the IMCWMA Calendar for abstracts.