Montana War on Weeds We hope that this web site will educate you about Montana State Noxious Weeds in a user friendly, how-to, information, link and picture packed series of pages. The students of Whitehall High School (who have researched and written over 90% of this site) are dedicated to Integrated Pest (Weed) Management (IPM), which means this site will inform you of any and all reasonable methods possible to help you fight your 'War On Weeds.'![]()
The students of WHS and the students involved in the summer Whitehall Project received the Montana Youth Weed Fighting Group Of The Year award for 2002 from the Montana Weed Control Association (MWCA) at their annual convention in January of '03.
Visit our Site Sponsors page for information on weed fighting companies and those who help sponsor the site. The site hosting is funded by these generous sponsors.
MWCA January, 2008 Annual Meeting
Some of the Cyphocleonus achates, Weevils we collected in Darby 8-7-08. They have been chilled in the refrigerator to make them less active and will now be sorted into releases of 100 weevils each.
Cyphocleonus achates, the knapweed root boring weevil. The Whitehall Project along with help from the Victor Insectary Project and others (12 people total) collected 20,700 in 4 hours at a "super site" near Victor, MT, August, 2007. At some Montana sites these weevils along with seed head feeding insects are having dramatic results in lowering the density of knapweed.
Photo by Jim Story - at this Victor site.
Montana Governor and First Lady's Math & Science Initiative, Knapweed Insectary
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Whitehall High School Web Page
[ 2007 Montana Weed Control Association Annual Meeting ]
[Montana Weed Control Association Annual Meeting January, 2005]
[ Noxious Weed email Discussion Groups ][ Sounds and Sights of Weeds ] [ Comments & Survey ]
Montana Noxious Weed Trust Fund - Grants 4/2000
Montana Weed Control Assoc. Annual Meeting 1/2000
Jefferson Valley Conservation Dist. Tour 10-99.
Jefferson/Madison County Leafy Spurge Flea Beetle Net Day '99
Jefferson/Madison County Joint Weed Boards Meeting 8/5/99
MWCA 2006 Annual Convention, Jan. 2006
This site is being created, built and maintained by Whitehall High School students as an educational project, in cooperation with the Montana Noxious Weed Trust Fund, Montana Department of Agriculture, Whitehall Schools and the Madison and Jefferson County Weed Districts.
The creation of this site is a continuing educational project, funded by Site Sponsors. This mtwow.org site is constantly being revised and added to by the students of Whitehall High School. The project is supervised by the WHS faculty, County Weed Districts, and the Montana State Department of Agriculture.
As pages become active they will appear as links on your browser. If we have incorrectly credited a photo and/or have any errors or user unfriendly areas in this web site, please feel free to contact us! Suggestions and photo/info. contributions are always welcome!! Also, please feel free to use any photographs and information on this site. Just give the photographers, authors and this site the credit they deserve. Thank you!
Site Supervisor: Todd Breitenfeldt, WHS Science Teacher/Whitehall Project. Contact Site Supervisor.
E-mail: tbreit@whitehallmt.org - School Phone: (406) 287-3862
S-mail: mtwow.org Whitehall Schools,
P.O. Box 1109, Whitehall, MT 59759.
Home Page updated 11/19/2008, other site pages often updated as needed or finished.
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