Highway Shoulder Maintenance and Gravelling[Location]

[Date]

Weeds and Roads

D. PolsterJ. Leekie

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Best Practices for Shoulder Maintenance

•Invasive Plants and Impacts

•The Contractor’s Role

•Best Practices

•Priority Plants

Overview

Yellow Hawkweed

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Definition

Invasive Plants

• Invasive plants are non-native plants thatcan cause significant damage.

• They spread very quickly, displacing and sometimes eliminating native plants

• They are sometimes called ‘noxious weeds’

C. Wheeler

Scentless Chamomile

Leafy Spurge

Economic

•Agriculture and Ranching

•Forestry

•Transportation

Impacts

S. Dewey, Bugwood.org

Giant Hogweed

Environmental

•Reduced biodiversity

•Increased erosion and sedimentation

Impacts

CRD

B. Tokarska-Guzik, bugwood.org

Orange Hawkweed

Your Role

Guidance Documents

•B.C. Weed Control Act

•Environmental Best Practices

•MoT Best Practices Guide

Your Role

What can you do to manage invasive plantson highway shoulders?

Your Role

Your Role

VIDEO CLIP

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What’s Should Happen Here?

Best Practices

MOT

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What’s Gone Wrong Here?

Best Practices

USDA, bugwood.org

Invasive giant hogweed

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What’s Gone Wrong Here?

Best Practices

B. StewartInvasive diffuse knapweed

Priority Plants within the District

•[plant common and scientific name]

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•[plant common and scientific name]

Plants of Concern

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For More Information…

Contact your local Regional Committee

Visit www.invasiveplantcouncilbc.ca

Call 1-888-WEEDSBC

D. Ralph