Ogden, UTAH – According to the state officials, this is reportedly a new tool highlighting the success of the Invasive Species Mitigation Weed Control Program.
In the past three years alone, the ISM program has funded 118 projects treating over 3.3 million across the state through 4.7 million dollars in funding.
Noxious weeds compete directly with beneficial native plants and can cause devastating impacts to agriculture, wildlife habitat, native ecosystems, and increase wildfire fuel loads to catastrophic levels.
These weeds cost an estimated $26.4 billion per year in agricultural economic losses in the United States.
All of Utah’s 29 counties face challenges in controlling noxious weeds including funding, jurisdictional hurdles, and accessing difficult-to-reach terrain.
UDAF has created a new website to further highlight each of these projects and provide detailed information on how they have helped protect Utah’s native plant communities and ecosystems.