Weed Management Areas in California

摘要

County-level Weed Management Areas(WMA), and other weed-specific coordination groups have brought invasive plant prevention and control to a more local level and have increased the sophistication and effectiveness of invasive species management in California. Between 1997 and 1999 the number WMAs has risen from 7 to 33, comprised of 47 individual counties. A Weed Management Area (WMA) is a local organization that brings together landowners and managers (private, city, county, state, and federal) ina county, multi-county, or other geographical area for the purpose of coordinating and combining action and expertise in combating common invasive weed species. It is intended to be at the grassroots level where participants in the group are actually thepeople who are directly controlling weeds or doing education work with those who do.