Noxious Weed Control

Noxious Weeds: The Cancer on Our Land

Noxious weeds pose a serious threat to all Idahoans and to the land we call home. Control and managing Idaho’s 67 noxious weed species requires an understanding of the problem, and that begins with detection and identification of noxious weeds.

Notice To Control Noxious Weeds

It shall be the duty and responsibility of all landowners to control noxious weeds on their land and property, in accordance with Title 22, Chapter 24 (22-2407).

For help with identification, control methods, spray equipment to loan and information about our CWMA cost-share program, contact Valley County Weed Control at 55 Gold Dust Road.

Noxious weeds cost millions of dollars to Idaho by:

Fouling recreation sites from use	Chocking streams & waterways
Poisoning & injuring livestock & humans	Crowding out beneficial native plants
Degrading wildlife habitat	Creating wild fires in our forests & Idaho’s range land

The spread of noxious weeds in Idaho may signal the decline of entire ecological watersheds. They severely impact the beauty and create widespread economic losses. Noxious weeds are huge problems for our urban as well as rural areas, and for private, state, and federal lands. Valley County noxious weed species spare no segment of society – rancher, hunter, hiker’s and fisherman alike – and when unmanaged they spread rapidly and unceasingly and silently.

Noxious weeds presently in Valley County include:

Scotch Thistle	Spotted Knapweed	Tansy Ragwort
Whitetop	Purple Loosestrife	Yellow Toadflax
Poison Hemlock	Houndstongue	Leafy Spurge
Oxeye Daisy	Hoary Alyssum	Rush Skeletonweed
Eurasian Watermilfoil	Orange Hawkweed	Canada Thistle
Dalmatian Toadflax	Diffuse Knapweed	Field Bindweed