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Noxious Weed Office reports new state listings, grants and new programs for 2025
Summary
Noxious Weed Office Manager Larry Hudson told commissioners the office is fully staffed and outlined new state listings, grants and planned programs including drone surveys, equipment leasing and aquatic treatments.
Larry Hudson, manager of Okanogan County’s Noxious Weed Office, told the Board of County Commissioners the office is now fully staffed and described work and grant awards planned for 2025.
Hudson said the county’s weed board adopted the Washington State Noxious Weed List and that the state added two Class A listings this year. The county has known infestations of roundleaf bittersweet; marsh thistle is listed as Class A with no known infestations in the county. The weed board also designated puncture vine, longspine sandburr and spurflax as species required for control in public right-of-ways and parking areas.
Hudson summarized grants and cost-share awards under development: $8,333 from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for leafy spurge control on the Similkameen…
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