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Barnyards & Backyards Articles
All in the timing - There's a season for everything and one is weed management
Controlling noxious weeds on YOUR place
Controlling Weeds in Horse Pastures
Fall is a good time for weed management
Get Control of Weeds on Your Place: A Weed Warrior's Seasonal Approach...spring
Get the upper hand on weeds in the vegetable garden
Manage weeds by reducing deposits to the seed bank
Noxious weeds: To pull or not to pull?
Prevention most effective method to stop invasive species
Pulling, mowing, burning can help stop weed spread after going to seed
Some Wyoming invasive weed areas are biological warfare battlegrounds
Strategies to defeat weeds
Taking back your pasture: The weed management process
Weeds on the move: Ways to stop the spread
Weeds getting your garden down? Don't give up yet!
What's the deal with invasive annual grasses?
You can help keep invasive weeds at bay
Barnyards & Backyards Featured Landower Articles
Featured landowners: C-V Ranch goes from baby steps to leaps and bounds with integrated weed management
Featured landowner: Residents of rural subdivision cooperate to battle weeds
Other Publications & Resources
This table will help you identify various Integrated Pest Management (IPM) weed treatments for a wide range of weed species.
(IMAGINE) This web site provides info on identification, management & control of invasive annual grasses (cheatgrass, medusahead, ventenata, etc)
(UW CES pub B-909R Written 2003)
(UW CES pub B-1126 Written 2002)
Videos
(Barnyards & Backyards Live! show)
(Barnyards & Backyards Live! show)

Barnyards & Backyards Articles
Aquatic nuisances can cause big problems if not caught early
Correct identification of weeds a critical step
Do you know these infamous weeds?
Edible Weeds of the home and garden
Good Plant? Bad Plant? What is it anyway?
Name that thistle
Native and Non-Native Plants: Weeding Out the Bad from the Good
Picking plants: How to collect and preserve plants for identification
Wyoming weed puzzle
Keeping Wyoming safe from invasion: Identifying potential weed problems
Other Publications
(Premier resource for identifying weeds. Seriously big files.)
(WY Weed & Pest Council - Pictures to help you ID plants on the state list.)
(USDA NRCS)
Some common Wyoming Weeds (University of Wyoming)
(University of Wyoming publication 2013)
(has pictures of seedlings for a variety of weeds, many in WY) (Montana State University)
Videos
(UW CES 2010)

Barnyards & Backyards Articles
Ask Sam (Tamarisk)
Cheatgrass - The ecology, biology, and control of a biological time bomb
Ask Sam - Russian knapweed control
Featured landowner: Weed warriors purge their spurge
Is Russian olive really a noxious weed in Wyoming? Native and Non-Native Plants: Weeding Out the Bad from the Good
Neighbors team to control Russian olive
Spring - a great time to get a grip on cheatgrass control
Winter: The perfect time to rid property of Russian olives
Other Publications & Resources
(IMAGINE) This web site provides info on identification, management & control of invasive annual grasses (cheatgrass, medusahead, ventenata, etc)
(UW CES pub B-1074 Written 1999)
Videos
Cheatgrass Workshop Sept 28, 2011
(Jim Cotterman, Platte Co. Weed & Pest; Kellie Chichester, UW CES; 2:14 min)
(Mae Smith, UW CES; 25:35 min)
(Brian Mealor, UW CES; 36:07 min)
(Rachel Mealor, UW CES; 34:35 min)
(Brian Mealor, UW CES; 9:02 min)
Field Trip
Plot layout (PDF)
Cover data (PDF)
(Part 1; 18:31)
(Part 2; 18:00)