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Funding Program: Western Region Work Groups

Project Title: Expansion of the online High Plains IPM Guide to include agricultural, rangeland, and wildland weed recommendations

Project Directors (PDs): Fabian Dean Menalled [1] William Lanier [2] Mary E Burrows [3]

Lead State: MT Lead Organization: Montana State University

Undesignated Funding: $79,574

Start Date: Jan-01-2008 End Date: Dec-31-2009

Pests Involved: weeds

Site/Commodity: High Plains

Area of Emphasis: Weed management

Summary: Since 1998, specialists at several Universities across the High Plains have cooperated in the production and dissemination of research-based pest management information through the High Plains IPM Guide. Despite its success, a major limitation of the Guide is the lack of weed management recommendations. We request funds to fill this gap by 1) assessing audience concerns about problematic weeds, 2) producing and web-publishing weed biology, ecology, impact, and integrated management information on the High Plains IPM website, 3) disseminating the online Guide across a wide audience, and 4) evaluating usage of the Guide to improve delivery and increase audience awareness. This proposal will have local, regional, and national impacts as it meets several Western Region IPM Program priorities including: 1) outreach and demonstration activities specific to IPM implementation, 2) encouraging implementation of IPM, and 3) increasing outreach on integrating new reduced risk tactics in IPM programs. Objectives: Objective 1. Develop and disseminate a questionnaire across the High Plains states to assess producers, ag consultants, extension agents, and industry personnel (hereafter audience) concerns about problematic weeds. Objective 2. Produce, web-publish, and coordinate author/ownership of existing and new information to include weed biology, weed ecology, impact, and integrated weed management on the High Plains IPM website. Objective 3. Promote the existence of invasive weed-related information on the online High Plains IPM Guide across a wide audience. Objective 4. Evaluate usage of the online High Plains IPM Guide to improve delivery and increase audience awareness and usage.

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