programs

Introduction: Invasive Weed Management Program

Manually Removing Invasive Weeds

The Mid Klamath Watershed Council coordinates community volunteer workdays to identify, map, and remove invasive plant populations from the Mid Klamath corridor and selected upslope sites. We employ manual removal, mulching, and other non-chemical methods of invasive plant control.

Through grants from the California Department of Food and Agriculture, the US Forest Service, the National Forest Foundation and the Siskiyou County Resource Advisory Committee, MKWC has been able to hire local personnel to systematically map and treat invasive plant populations in the Mid Klamath. Working closely with our funders, the Salmon River Restoration Council and the Karuk, Yurok and Hoopa Tribes, MKWC addresses the threat posed by invasive species, and educates the community of the need to protect fish, amphibians, and native plants through manual removal and other non-chemical techniques.

Current projects focus on the inventory, mapping, and removal of isolated and leading edge populations of highly invasive weeds including: spotted knapweed, meadow knapweed, oblong spurge, leafy spurge and Italian thistle. Past projects have included other satellite/leading edge species including Dyer’s woad, Yellow starthistle, and Broom species.