By Ryan Mitchel Collins
Staff Writer 

BLM invests heavily in fighting invasive weeds

Focus is on treatment, prevention, education and inventory

 

Courtesy BLM

Rance Neighbors chemically treats saltcedar while riding his horse Hank, with the help of his mule Belle in the Killifish Wildlife Habitat Area west of Worland.

WORLAND-The best way to describe the Bureau of Land Management's approach to fighting the spread of weeds is a collective effort.

"It's a coordinated effort with everyone. We're all working together to achieve our goals," said Leslie Coleman, a natural resource specialist in invasive species and soils with the BLM Worland Field Office. "Oil and gas does a lot of bare ground treatment because th...



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