Monthly Weed Post
Welcome to the monthly weed post, a 2-page bulletin featuring a noxious weed, interesting research, or a timely issue related to weed management. If you would like to receive the Monthly Weed Post via email, please send an email to jane.mangold@montana.edu
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2020
How to tell the difference between exotic and native thistles (February)
Answers to recent Weed Post word scrambles or crossword puzzles:
2019
Managing weeds after wildfire (December)
Narrowleaf hawksbeard (August)
Schutter diagnostic lab activities for 2018 (March)
2018
Predicting the best sites to use biological control (December)
"Montana's Noxious Weeds" now available as electronic flipbook (August)
A perennial problem: Revisiting control methods for Canada thistle (July)
Most popular mobile apps for invasive plant managers (June)
White campion and bladder campion (April)
Montana Noxious Weed Education Campaign highlights from 2017 (January)
2017
Montana realtor online noxious weed training (December)
Herbicide resistance (November)
Yellow and desert alyssum (October)
Modifying seeding date for successful establishment of bluebunch wheatgrass (September)
Common sources of non-target herbicide injury (August)
Roadside revegetation: Native plants and noxious weeds (July)
A systematic review of cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) control research (May)
Invasive mustards: hoary alyssum, perennial pepperweed, and whitetop (April)
Weed suppressive bacteria for cheatgrass (March)
Schutter Diagnostic Laboratory 2016 Summary (January)
2016
Bear Trap Wilderness (November)
Economic impacts of noxious weeds on private grazing lands (October)
Conservation Innovation Grant project--Changing weed management (September)
Leafy spurge integrated management monitoring day (August)
Spotted knapweed, native forbs, and pollinators (June)
Weed manager-driven local research projects Part II (May)
Weed manager-driven local research projects Part I (April)
Tall buttercup seedling growth along a soil moisture gradient (February)
Schutter Diagnostic Laboratory (January)
2015
Montana Noxious Weed Education Campaign (December)
Native parisitoids associated with knapweed biocontrols (November)
Parrot feather watermilfoil (September)
Revegetation of rangeland (April)
Yellowflag iris reproduction (March)
Cheatgrass biocontrol (January)
2014
Biocontrol research update (December)
Native and exotic thistles: Who's Jeckyl, who's Hyde? (August)
Weed spread and climate change: the story for Dalmatian toadflax (July)
Genotyping rush skeletonweed (March)
2013
A brief peek into weed research in Montana (December)
Bees eye view: native versus nonnative plants (November)
Plant identification (October)
Going my way? Weed seeds as hitchhikers (September)
A glimpse at a few new invaders (May)
Controlling cheatgrass with imazapic on Montana rangeland (April)
Hawkweed ID and nomenclature (February)
2012
Applying biological control methods for weed management (December)
Dalmatian and yellow toadflax (November)
Rangeland revegetation revisited (September)
Biological control of leafy spurge, spotted knapweed, and Dalmatian toadflax in MT (June)
Summary of weed research in Montana (April)
Revegetation of cheatgrass-infested rangelands: size matters! (February)
Weed post year in review (January)