Weed Task Force

Last night, Wednesday, 14 November, I attended a meeting put on by the Clackamas County Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) in Molalla. What this meeting was all about is the formation of a noxious weed taskforce.

You might ask yourself what we need with such a thing as a weed taskforce, and I did too. That's why I went to the meeting. What I learned made me want to serve on the taskforce and to help out in any way that I can.

If you have rural property, especially if you have livestock or grow any kind of crop, be it for your own use or for sale, a service such as this could be very valuable for you. Asside from providing information on different types of weeds, the taskforce will probably wind up generating and/or providing information on various ways to control these weeds that can be dangerous to domestic animals, wildlife and wild plants, and often have the effect of being a general pain in the hindquarters, or the back as the case may be.

I'd like to encourage anyone interested in this to contact Ginny Van Loo, Weed Task Force Program Coordinator - 421 High Street, Suite 105, Oregon City, Oregon 97045
Phone (503) 349-8951, email - ginnyg89@msn.com. You can also go to the website - http://www.cc-swcd.org