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21 New weeds added to Idaho's Noxious Weeds list

The 2007 Idaho Legislature has added 21 new weeds to Idaho's Noxious Weeds list, bringing the total now to 57.

The Idaho State Department of Agriculture is committed to controlling the weeds on our noxious weeds list.

Please join us in this fight to protect Idaho's natural resources.

ISDA Noxious Weed Program

ISDA is responsible for administration of the State Noxious Weed Law. The State Weed Coordinator and the other program staff provide support, training, and organizational assistance to the counties and Cooperative Weed Management Areas throughout the state.

A Cooperative Weed Management Area (CWMA) is a distinguishable hydrologic, vegetative, or geographic zone based upon geography, weed infestations, climatic or human-use patterns.  CWMAs are formed when the landowners and land managers of a given area come together and agree to work cooperatively to control weeds. Idaho has 40 CWMA's, which are part of the ISDA cost-share program (the majority of the funding comes from federal sources).

Staff also represents the director and the department on the Idaho Weed Coordinating Committee and various other weed-related task forces, associations, and committees.

For more information on the program, please review the Noxious Weed Program Overview.pdf

The program's guiding document is the Strategic Plan. The initial Strategic Plan.pdf was created in 1999. After successful completion of many of the goals outlined in the Plan, a new statewide Strategic Plan.pdf was created in 2005.