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Dolores River Restoration Project, Forbs Tolerant to Milestone® Specialty Herbicide, Managing Sulfur Cinquefoil in Natural Areas, Are Drones in Your Future?, Essential Resources for Invasive Plant Managers, TechLine Welcomes New Team Member, Photo Contest Winners.

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• Twenty Years of Success: Managing Tansy Ragwort in Northwestern Montana ... 3
• Controlling Tansy Ragwort in Natural Areas ... 4
• Synthetic Auxin Herbicides Control Germinating Scotch Broom ... 7
• Logging Debris and Herbicide Treatments for Controlling Scotch Broom... 8
• Celebrating the Centennial: Volunteers Unite in Glacier National Park Weed BioBlitz ... 10
• Managing Scotch thistle on Rangeland and Natural Areas ... 12
• Saint Johnswort Biology, Impact and Management ...14
• Enter Invasive Plant Photo Contest Until October 14 ... 2

• Landowner-Hunter Partnership Supports Habitat Conservation ... 3
• Integrative Management of Sericea Lespedeza in Prairie Restorations ... 6
• Managing Sericea Lespedeza with Selective Herbicides ... 9
• Managing Sweetclover in Natural Areas ... 10
• Saint Johnswort Biology, Impact and Management ...12
• Celebrating the Centennial: Volunteers Unite in Glacier National Park Weed BioBlitz ... 14
• Enter Invasive Plant Photo Contest Until October 14 ... 2

• Impact of Canada Thistle Cover on Plant Community Structure in Early Stage Prairie Restoration
• Practical Tips for Managing Canada Thistle
• Proper Application Timing to Maximize Control of Key Invasive Plants
• Essential Online Resources To Kick Off Your Field Season

• Protecting the Highcountry in Southwestern Colorado
• Oxeye Daisy Identification and Management
• Proper Application Timing to Maximize Control of Key Invasive Plants
• Essential Online Resources To Kick Off Your Field Season

• Fall Application Timing Controls Russian Knapweed in Wyoming Watershed
• Partnerships Expand Invasive Plant Management in Dakota Prairie Grasslands
• Early Detection and Control Stops Purple Starthistle Spread in Idaho
• Are Fall Applications Effective on Perennial Invasive Plants? Experts Weigh In
• Mapping Invasive Plants Using Helmet Based Video System

• Belwin Conservancy Tackles Grecian Foxglove
• Long-term Control of Crown Vetch at a Wisconsin Wildlife Refuge 
• Partnerships Expand Invasive Plant Management in Dakota Prairie Grasslands
• Are Fall Applications Effective on Perennial Invasive Plants? Experts Weigh In.
• Mapping Invasive Plants Using Helmet Based Video System

• Tolerance of desirable grasses to Milestone® and Perspective herbicides
• Common tansy identification and management
• Proper application timing to maximize control of key invasive plants
• Essential online resources to kick off your field season

Read about a project to improve habitat for a key indicator species in western Missouri, removing invasive woody species on a Nature Preserve in Minnesota, managing crown vetch, tree-of-heaven and other key species in the fall, new "Smart" spray wand technology and more!

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Read about a cooperative project in the Ruby River watershed in Montana, new research for medusahead rye control, managing rush skeletonweed, tree-of-heaven, and other key species in the fall, new "Smart" spray wand technology and more!

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This issue provides quick reference to online resources to help managers meet the demands of a busy field season, with focus in the western range and wildlands region of the United States.

• Gearing Up For Spring and Summer: Essential Online Resources To Kick Off Your Field Season
• New Series To Enhance Understanding Of Herbicides
• Proper Application Timing For Key Species

This issue provides quick reference to online resources to help managers meet the demands of a busy field season, with focus in the prairie and grasslands region of the United States.

• Gearing Up For Spring and Summer: Essential Online Resources To Kick Off Your Field Season
• New Series To Enhance Understanding Of Herbicides
• Proper Application Timing For Key Species

New strategies by the Catalina Island Conservancy to eliminate milk thistle from Santa Catalina Island, southwest of Los Angeles, California; The River to River Cooperative Weed Management Area in southern Illinois; A successful approach to controlling tamarisk in Utah's Buckhorn Wash; Identification and management of invasive knotweeds; Research supporting aquatic labeling of aminopyralid and more!

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1   Pheasants Forever – Conserving Wildlife Through Habitat Protection and Restoration

5  Midwest Invasive Plant Network – Joining Forces to Combat Invasive Plants in the Midwest

6  Bringing It All Together –Tips for Managing Canada Thistle, and Seeding Recommendations for Canada Thistle Infested Sites

8   Restoring Wisconsin’s Pine Barren Landscape – Reducing Risk of Non-native Plant Invasion During Restoration

10  Herbicide Selectivity in Invasive Plant Management

11  Proper Application Timing Maximizes Invasive Plant Control with Milestone Herbicide

12  Lessons from the Islands

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• Protecting Merced River Canyon from Invasive Plants–Yosemite National Park and Interagency Partners Tackle Yellow Starthistle
• Proper Application Timing Maximizes Invasive Plant Control with Milestone® Herbicide
• BLM and partners ‘Restore New Mexico’ on a landscape scale

• Rocky Mountain Front Weed Roundtable - A model of cooperation
• Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program - A tool for private land conservation
• Controlling invasive plants in fall and early winter
• After the Smoke Clears - Resources for addressing post fire weed invasion and expansion 

• Wallowa Canyonlands Partnership uses a science-based approach for managing noxious weeds
• Protecting watershed values in southeast Wyoming - Wyoming counties unite to control Russian olive and saltcedar along the North Platte River
• Optimal herbicide application timing for Canada thistle control
• Herbicide application timing critical to control exotic hawkweeds

• Establishing Wildflowers after Herbicide Application
• US Fish and Wildlife Service Manages Invasive Woody Plants
• Comparison of Greenhouse to Native Grown Wildflowers for Herbicide Tolerance
• Optimal Herbicide Application Timing for Canada Thistle Control
• Biology and Management of Common Teasel

• Enhancing wildlife habitat through partnerships and perserverence: Committment is key to Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation conservation efforts
• Establishing desirable grasses in Russian knapweed infested sites
• Native grass establishment following herbicide applications
• Fall application of Milestone herbicide to control key invasive weeds

• Overcoming challenges to restore native tall grass prairie
• Spotted knapweed management possible with planning, persistence, and integrated approach
• Biennial thistle management

• Bighorn Sheep and Elk Habitat Enhancement Project (p. 1)
• Effect of Milestone on Canada Thistle and the Native Plant Community in a Restored Tallgrass Prairie (p. 4)
• Native Forb and Shrub Tolerance to Milestone Herbicide (p. 8)
• Fall Application of Milestone to Control Key Invasive Weeds (p. 10)
• Biological Control Researcher Announces Retirement (p. 11)
• TechLine is Online: Sign up to receive TechLine and more by email (p. 11)

• Elk Refuge Manages Invasive Plants
• Collaboration and Outreach Creates Successful Invasive Plant Program
• Scouts Team-up Against Tamarisk
• 2010 Summer TechTour Schedule
• Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Milestone Herbicide
• Adios Amigos...It Has Been A Great Ride

• Resource managers gain on cheatgrass: Finding the right balance elusive when restoring native ranges.
• Rush skeletonweed research: Efficacy and application timing of Milestone® herbicide on rush skeletonweed.
• National monument faces multiple weed challenges: Finding the right tools, one step at a time.
• Revived county program tackles multiple weed challenges: Landowners partner with BLM to fish noxious weeds in a challenging environment.
• Dubois-Crow Heart Weed Management Area: Weeds managed over large areas with the aid of GIS system.

• Rotational grazing combined with integrated methods create success: Imaginative techniques improve Audobon National Wildlife Refuge Health
• Weed and Pest District adopts diversified techniques: Critical watershed areas reclaimed from Canada thistle impacts
• North Platte River Russian olive and saltcedar control projects
• Wisdom gained from long-term weed control efforts: Weed management must involve all resources available to insure success
• Riparian area habitat improved, forage grasses increased: Treating invasives without damaging desirable species

• Controlling invasives benefits native species: Milestone(R) herbicide control of Canada thistle in native grasslands.
• Project manages invasive vegetation in depest canyon in the US: Twelve-year cooperative effort pays dividends.
• Impacts increasing as knotweed species spread to more ecosystems: Researcher sees possibilities in new tools and techniques.
• TNC battles knotweeds in Sandy River watershed: Dual approach of testing and landscape-size application yields answers.
• Innovative herbicide, new GPS tools: Lincoln County grapples with second home growth.

• Innovative program managers find answers: Booming resort communities pose weed management challenge
• Scotch thistle research: Performance of herbicides applied in the spring for Scotch thistle
• Using the right tools in the right places: Revegetation and riparian area weed control help restore rangelands
• Integrated program successfully preserves habitat: Invasive plant species threaten elk refuge
• Diverse land use create need for cooperation: Organization, prioritization, and motivation create success
• Split tank ATV setup

• Boomless nozzles require new thinking for correct use: Boomless nozzles evaluation for weed control in pastures, rangelands, and on roadsides.
• Hawkweed research: Efficacy and application timing of Milestone(R) herbicide on hawkweeds.
• US Fish and Wildlife Service: Strike team brings timely weed control to wildlife refuges.
• Sublette County, One of the "cleanest" counties in the western US: Booming energy development brings threat from expanding noxious weed infestations.

• Native species respond better to integrated approach: Russian knapweed management in riparian areas improves wildlife habitat
• Landowners band together to fight riparian invasive species: Coordination, cooperation make difficult projects possible
• Program builds weed awareness: AAW reaches out to outdoor enthusiasts and anglers
• Invasive vegetation management improves habitat on snake river: River cooridors provide valuable wildlife habitat
• Weed-free gravel slows weed spread: Yellowstone pit survey builds partnerships with operators
• Hybrid species of Tamarisk pose special challenge: Researchers, land managers seek effective solutions

• Integration, perseverance key successful vegetation management programs
• Wildlife habitat improves with herbicide treatment vs. fire: Native species respond when sagebrush is thinned or controlled
• Public involved in integrated weed control efforts: Cooperative weed management area for 2.3 million acres
• Hand pulling works best in conjunction with other methods: Hand pulling project gains public involvement in weed control
• A critical resource preserved: Invasives threaten watershed and wildlife habitat

• Leafy spurge threatens habitat: Integrated management benefits range, sage grouse
• Comparative herbicide study in riparian area: Research yields management strategies
• Yellow toadflax management in forest and wilderness: Forest Service managers throw everything at invasives and never quit
• Research points to management options: Effect of herbicide treatments on Dalmatian toadflax establishment and spread in burned forest sites
• Public, private, county, forest cooperation succeeds: Forest Service partners to achieve success

• Success at educating your constituents keys vegetation management progress
• Progress returns to Missoula weed management programs: "De-emphasize large public meetings and increase the opportunities for personal interactions"
• Success is a great motivator: Preserving cultural plants keys weed management acceptance
• Flathead County: Agencies working together cut weed infested acreage
• Glacier National Park: Doing nothing means resources will continue to degrade

• Management restores wildlife habitats impacted by invasives
• War on weeds: winning it for wildlife
• Integrated methods control yellow starthistle at Fort Hunter Liggett
• Bighorn sheep habitat improved with weed control
• Land users restore Roosevelt Elk range

• Sounds research, integrated methods, and persistence key these successful programs
• Park's protocols lead others toward successful management: Shenandoah National Park managers develop effective vegetation control program
• Sound research aids preservation effort: Managing invasives preserves old growth forest for study and public enjoyment
• Managing Akebia quinata at the James Madison Landmark Forest: An evaluation of herbicides and the timing of application
• Cherokee National Forest managers convert fescue grasslands to native grasses

• Integrated management costs and efficacy compared
• Cost and efficacy of spotted knapweed management with integrated methods
• Yellow starthistle management possible with planning and integrated approach
• Management practices for long-term yellow starthistle control and enhanced rangeland productivity

• Post-fire opportunities key invasive plant management progress and success
• Protecting relatively uninfested lands: Reducing weed spread following fire
• Pre-fire planning insured that the railroad fire turned into an invsive species management opportunity
• Prepare to handle post-fire weed explosure within two years of a fire
• Range fire opens door to rush skeletonweed inventory and management
• The effect of Tordon 22K and Transline on establishment of three range grass species
• Establishing noxious weed demonstration plots
• Squarrose knapweed control following a wildfire

• Wilderness and rough terrain weed management possible
• Largest wilderness in lower 48 tackles weed problem
• Horseback sprayers key back country weed control success
• Simplicity works best in rough terrain
• Short on horsemanship? Get a llama
• Will there be 21st-century Einsteins?

• Exotic, invasive plant management information for the eastern U.S.
• Shenandoah National Park tackles Ailanthus invasion to preserve diversity
• Evaluation of herbicide tank mixes for low volume basal applications: Managing Ailanthus altissima at Shenandoah National Park
• Kudzu worth managing for Cherokee National Forest
• In The Nature Conservancy Marshall Forest Preserve: Escaped ornamentals cause ecological harm in native environment

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