Cooperative Weed Management Areas

Cooperative Weed Management Areas, commonly referred to as CWMA's, are one of the newest and most effective ways to battle noxious and invading weeds in the United States.

Why are CWMA's so successful?

Technological advances in machinery, chemicals, and biological controls have benefited the industry in tremendous ways in the last several years giving tremendous power to individual departments and agencies. In the past these departments and agencies relied on their own employees to get work done in their respective jurisdiction, often blaming and being blamed by others for encroaching weed problems. Weeds are everyone's problem. Through the development of CWMA's, most of the "blame game" is replaced by the cooperative efforts and resources of multiple departments and agencies across jurisdictional boundaries. Often CWMA's are able to secure substantial government funding because the scope of projects can be increased to include weeds across federal, state, county, municipal, and private properties.

CWMA Projects

Below are some pdf documents illustrating projects that some of Utah's CWMA's have done recently.
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Grants - This describes Utah CWMA funding. For clarification of this document feel free to contact Bill Gilson at (435) 279-5258 or email bgilsonbe@yahoo.com.

The links below show some of the projects CWMA's have done.

Beaver County CWMA
Bonneville CWMA
Canyon Country CWMA
Skyline CWMA
South Central Utah CWMA
Squarrose CWMA
Summit CWMA
Uintah Basin CWMA
Utah-Idaho CWMA
Wasatch CWMA
Weber River CWMA

To see a map of the CWMA's in Utah click here.

CWMA's in Utah

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