Invasive Species

Best Practices While Planning Your Wyoming Garden

As the snowpack starts to melt and the patches of grass become more visible in your yard, it’s hard to not be excited to spend some quality time making your yard even more beautiful with gardening and landscaping with different flowers, shrubs, and trees.

Now is the Time to Winterize your Herbicide Sprayers

Dropping temperatures, snow on the ground, and shrinking daylight hours means that it’s time to winterize those herbicides! ❄️Harsh winters like we have in Jackson can damage your herbicides as well as equipment if you don’t take proper precautions and measures.

Ice Fishing — A Sneaky Culprit For Spreading Invasive Species

Ice Fishing this winter? Here's a friendly #PlayCleanGo reminder.. believe it or not, winter sports like ice fishing are an overlooked avenue for invasive species.

Moss Balls Carrying Zebra Mussels

We warned back in March 2021 that Marimo Moss Balls were contaminated with Zebra Mussels. These moss balls are generally sold at PetCo. and PetSmart and other pet stores. If you are unfamiliar with Zebra Mussels we want to urge how serious of an impact these invasive species can have on our waterways in Wyoming.

Giant Hogweed and Cow Parsnip: Which is Which and Why You Should Care

This summer we fielded calls from several frantic landowners who were certain they had giant hogweed growing on their property. Heracleum mantegazzianum is a weed worthy of panic, as its sap causes severe phytophotodermatitis in humans.

Aquatic Invasive Species Update

Invasive species come in all shapes and sizes and can be transported in countless ways disrupting the native ecosystems and in many cases overrunning the ability for native species to thrive.

Spring Is Here! When Can You Start Treating Weeds?

Summer is here and with the arrival of warm temps and sunshine come the season of noxious weed growth. Noxious weeds are invasive plants that has been introduced into an environment and causes or is likely to cause environmental or economic harm.

Invasive mussels wander closer to Wyoming's borders

Quagga mussel veligers (microscopic juvenile quagga mussels) are on the move and have been detected in Deer Creek Reservoir in north-central Utah. Soon after, a single zebra mussel was found in South Dakota at a boat dock in Lewis & Clark Lake and a quagga mussel was found in Angostura Reservoir in southwestern South Dakota.

Feed Weed Free

So what is the big deal about certified weed free forage? Prevention is the most economical and proactive method of controlling invasive species by never letting them into this area in the first place.