CASE STUDY: INVASIVE WEEDS

Kelly Cooley – CoolPro Solutions Environmental ConsultingTransboundary Grasslands Workshop, Elkwater, AB January 19-20, 2016

Personal Perspective: Grasslands

Perspectives On Grass ‘Management’

Invasive Weeds: What’s Worked

(And Not Worked)?

Lessons: Must AvoidMust Have

OVERVIEW (IF I HAVE TO…I GUESS)

Transboundary Grasslands Workshop, Elkwater, AB January 19-20, 2016

PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE: GRASSLANDS

Grew Up On ‘Mixed’ Farm & Ranch East Of Pincher Creek

‘Mixed’ Meaning We Raised Cattle On Lands My Dad Or His Farming Predecessors

Couldn’t ‘Improve’ Into Farm Production

Scotts Coulee (Native Prairie) Ran Through Our Home Place Just South Of Piikani

Photo By Kelly Cooley, CoolPro Solutions

PERSPECTIVES: GRASS ‘MANAGEMENT’

Grasslands ‘Managed’ For Centuries By Elemental Forces & Nature (Including Us)

‘Management’ Has Slowly ShiftedFrom The LONG View To The Short View

For The Past Century Or So Grassland Has Been Managed In Increasingly Fragmented

Parcels Rather Than Natural Contours

photo by Thomas Kitchin

“Salting The Earth” – Surprisingly Cheap?

"Our rows were 40 inches wide … that's what it took for the horses [to walk] through…That way you could cultivate north and south or east and west. And weeds were a big problem

because they didn't have herbicides, so if you could go both ways then you could get most of your weeds." -- Dean Buller, Wessels Living History Farm – Farming In The 1920’s

Photo Taken From Google Earth; Data From AESRD Staff And Kelly Cooley, SAWC

Nodding ThistleHays Provincial Grazing Reserve (Hays Maze)

MD of Taber

Photo By Kelly Cooley – CoolPro Solutions - kcool@platinum.ca

July 4 2013

Spotted Knapweed 2014 – Photo By Kelly Cooley – coolprosolutions@gmail.com

Spotted Knapweed

Photo By Kelly Cooley – coolprosolutions@gmail..com

Photos: Terry Hood, Alberta Public Lands

Leafy Spurge North American Distribution And Native Range

Source: http://www.uni-potsdam.de/ausstellung-biologische-invasionen/big/03/map-07-2.jpg

Introduced In 1827, Leafy Spurge Has Rapidly Spread Across The United

States And Canada, Infesting Nearly 3,000,000 Acres In 29 States And At

Least 4 Provinces.

Source: Saskatchewan Watershed Authority

February 15, 2016South Region AAAF

Photo By Kelly Cooley – CoolPro Solutions@gmail.com

Tall Hawkweed (Left) Yellow Devil Hawkweed (Right)

Photo By Kelly Cooley – CoolPro Solutions - coolprosolutions@gmail.com

Photo: Phil Schermeister

At This Point, It’s NOT EDRR

WHAT HAS WORKED WELL AND WHY?

Many Tools Developed To Prevent & Manage Grassland Weeds!

PreventionWeed Free Forage, Gravel, Soil

Seed & Equipment CleaningEcological Grazing Management Principles

Improved Riparian Management (Cows & Fish)

Sources: Montana, Ohio, Idaho Departments of Agriculture

Source: Montana Department of AgriculturePhoto By Kelly Cooley – coolprosolutions@gmail..com

Weeds Across Borders 2008

Play Clean Go

Adaptable To Other Target Audiences

Photo By Kelly Cooley 2004

kcool@platinum.ca

Photo By Sheilah Kennedy, S-K Environmental - http://s-k-enviro.com/index.htm

Photos By NewPark Mats

Many Tools Developed To Prevent & Manage Weeds!

Early Detection Rapid Response (EDRR)Digital Revolution–Species Info Highly Accessible

Mapping & Image Technology: Cheap & EasyInterjurisdictional Communication

Suite Of Management Tools Available

Source: Felix Pharand-Deschenes/ SPL/ Barcroft Media

Photo By Kelly Cooley 2004

kcool@platinum.ca

Photo http://www.irmforestry.com/

Tools To Contain – Reduce - Eradicate (?)Mechanical Control (Large & Small Equipment)Cultural Control ( Graz ing , Fert i l ity, Com peti t ive Plant ing , F i re )

Biological Control (Insects, Mammals, Biota)Herbicides (No Longer Viewed As Magic Bullet)

Key Is To Use These Tools Individually And In Combination On A Site Specific Basis

(Integrated Management)

Photo Credit: Lethbridge County

Photo CTV News

Diffuse Knapweed – City of Lethbridge August 2012 – Prior to Fire

Diffuse Knapweed – City of Lethbridge After Sept 2012 Fire

Photo By Kelly Cooley – coolprosolutions@gmail..com

Tom Heutte, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org

INVASIVE CHEATGRASS (DOWNY BROME): ADAPTED TO FIRE, MOVING NORTH

WHAT HASN’T WORKED SO WELL AND WHY?

Transboundary Grasslands Workshop,Elkwater, AB January 19-20, 2016

Competition For GrasslandDemand For Multiple, Often Incompatible ‘Usage’

Pressure To ‘Do More With Less’Overgrazing, ‘Cheaper’ AKA Weedy Forage

Shor t Term Economics Trumps Long Term EcologyIndustrial, Agricultural, & Recreational Cohabitation

Failure To Use Suite Of Prevention & Management Tools

Recipe For Introduction & Spread Of Invasives

LESSONS: “MUST AVOID”

Isolationist Thinking

‘Quick Fix’ Grassland ‘Management’

Ignoring Lessons From Our Past Mistakes

Trying To Convert It All To Cropland

LESSONS: “MUST HAVE”

Interjurisdictional Approach

Learn, Understand, Remember, Use, TeachRespect For Grasslands

Learn, Understand, Remember, Use, Teach Integrated Invasive

Prevention & Management

"When Dealing With Weeds, Our Failures Are Obvious, And

Our Successes Invisible."

Dr. Richard Old, XID Services Ltd.

Thank You!Kelly Cooley

CoolPro Solutionscoolprosolutions@gmail.com

January 20, 2016

CASE STUDY: INVASIVE WEEDS

CASE STUDY: INVASIVE WEEDS

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