MEETINGS, EVENTS, & NEWS:

Article in the SD Union Tribune on San Luis Rey Watershed Arundo control: Watershed looking like its old self again, 11/17/04

OUR ORGANIZATION

Goals

Meeting Archives:

• Sept 8^th 2003: Presentation
• Sept 12^th 2002: Agenda
• Aug 7^th 2001: Minutes
• Nov 2^nd 2000: Agenda - Minutes
• June 12^th 2000: Agenda - Minutes

LINKS you might be interested in

SAN DIEGO COUNTY:

San Diego County Weed Management Area

Mission Resource Conservation District

Team Arundo del Norte

San Luis Rey Watershed Council

Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve

CA Native Plant Society - SD Chapter

STATEWIDE:

California Exotic Pest Plant Council

Noxious Weed Projects Inventory

California Native Plant Society - exotics

Weed Management Areas in California

CalFlora Database

WEEDS IN THE NEWS:

Watershed looking like its old self again, SD Union Tribune, 11/17/04

Environmentalists launch campaign against invasive plant, NC Times, 1/19/03

Giant reed, invasive algae target of grants: NC Times, 12/5/02

Pesky plant a growing problem: San Diego Union Tribune, 11/22/00

Group hopes to eradicate Arundo from Santa Margarita River, NC Times, 9/20/00

Pepperweed could become new nemesis to area rivers, NC Times, 10/1/00

Giant Reed Prompts Major Concern, NC Times, 2/6/00

Questions...Comments.....Need more info? Contact: wma@smslrwma.org

Last updated 11/19/04

The Santa Margarita and San Luis Rey Watersheds Weed Management Area was formed to provide support, coordination and funding for management of invasive non-native plants and restoration of native riparian habitat within the Santa Margarita and San Luis Rey watersheds in San Diego and Riverside Counties. This web page provides information on our projects, control methods and non-native invasive plants of concern.

INVASIVE NON-NATIVE PLANTS of concern

Plant Info, Distribution Maps, Control Projects, Control Methods:

• Arundo donax (giant reed) control methods, mapping methodology, conference posters & more!
• Lepidium latifolium (Perennial pepperweed)
• Cardaria draba (Hoary cress)
• Retama monosperma (bridal broom)
• Vinca major (periwinkle)
• Tamarix spp. (Tamarisk, salt cedar)
• Delairea odorata (Cape/German ivy)
• Yellow star thistle (Centaurea solstitialis)

NON-NATIVE PLANTS TO WATCH FOR:

· Asparagus asparagoides (bridal creeper, smilax, asparagus vine)

· Purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria)

· Giant salvinia (Salvinia molesta)

NATIVE PLANTING

· Native Plant Recommendations and Care

· Sources of Native Plants, Seeds & Bulbs

WMA GRANTS:

· National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Pulling Together Initiative Grant: Awarded first grant in 1999 and second year of funding in 2000.

· Urban Stream Restoration Grant, Department of Water Resources: Live Oak Creek, awarded 10/01.

· Urban Stream Restoration Grant, Department of Water Resources: Ostrich Creek, Awarded 2002.

· Environmental Enhancement and Mitigation Grant, California Resources Agency: For Ostrich Creek, Awarded 2002.

· Southern CA Wetlands Recovery Program, CA Coastal Conservancy: For main stem of the SLR River, Awarded 2003.

· Watershed Protection Grant Program, SWQCB: For upper San Luis Rey watershed, Awarded 2003.