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Invasive Plant Management: Planning

Developing a Weed Management Plan

The first step in weed management planning is to identify land management goals, desired plant communities, and weed management objectives. Basic steps include:

1. Perform an inventory or survey to create a scope of the problem.
2. Identify and prioritize weed species and/or weed population threats.
• Create a list of priority weed species and learn about their impacts and biology.
• Determine whether they are on your state or province's noxious weed list.
3. Assess your management options, including prevention, restoration/revegetation, prescribed burning, and other control strategies.
4. Monitor your management actions and then evaluate your results to determine whether your weed management objectives are being achieved.

Resources for Developing a Weed Management Plan

Managing Invasive Plants: Concepts, Principles, and Practices

Adaptive Weed Management Plans

Weed Information Management System

Creating an Integrated Weed Management Plan: A Handbook for Owners and Managers of Lands with Natural Values

See Volume IV, which provides the tools and information necessary for public and private landowners to manage noxious weeds successfully in natural areas, wildlands, and rangelands.

Ecological Site Information System

Invasive Exotic Plant Management Tutorial for Natural Lands Managers

NEPAnet

National Environmental Policy Act regulations governing herbicide use.

Seven Steps to Managing Your Weeds (PDF)

Resources on Invasive Species Management Plans