Invasive plant control info (i.e. work you can do!) and articles about grassland management — Updated 9/16/20
Pasture List of Tasks
In general the intent of our hand work is to enhance the effectiveness of the grazing horses – to manage for healthy plant community, good forage, increased grazeable acres. Our hand work also has to compensate for (and prevent) fire, which otherwise would be a balancing force in our oak grassland.
| JANUARY | Feed on Weeds |
| FEBRUARY | Crossfence Maintenance Coyote Bush seedlings – hand pull |
| MARCH | Hemlock – hand pull Coyote Bush seedlings – hand pull Scotch Broom – pull & cut |
| APRIL | Hemlock – mow Mustard/Thistle – weedeat or mow Artichoke Thistle – look for survivors Purple Star Thistle – look for survivors |
| MAY | Hemlock – weedeat & mow Mustard/Thistle – weedeat or mow |
| JUNE | Teasel – behead & cut stalks |
| JULY | Teasel – behead & cut stalks Yellow Star Thistle – pull & remove Tule Control… |
| AUGUST | Structure Maintenance Stall Maintenance |
| SEPTEMBER | Coyote Bush – cut mature plants Clear Defensible Space |
| OCTOBER | Scotch Broom – cut, pull mature plants Coyote Bush – clear corrals Feed on Weeds |
| NOVEMBER | Feed on Weeds Trail Maintenance |
| DECEMBER | Feed on Weeds |
LINKS
Bentflower Fiddleneck (rare & endangered – do not pull): https://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/species_query.cgi?where-taxon=Amsinckia+…
Common Fiddleneck: https://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/species_query.cgi?where-calrecnum=326
California Invasive Plant Council: https://cal-ipc.org/
California Invasive Plant Council: Weed Workers Handbook: httpss://www.cal-ipc.org/resources/library/publications/wwh/
California Invasive Plant Council: Best Practices for Herbicide use in Wildland Management: https://www.cal-ipc.org/ip/management/BMPs/BMPHerbicide.pdf/
Calflora – plant database: https://www.calflora.org/
California Native Grasslands Association: https://www.cnga.org/
ARTICLES
- OVERVIEW OF MANAGEMENT TASKS: Description of plants & control methods at OHA. Overview of Management Tasks
- Brush Pile guidelines from EBMUD: brush piles
- EBMUD RANGE MANAGEMENT PLAN: An explanation of the management goals on EBMUD watershed rangelands. Excellent document written by Rod Tripp in 2001. Joe also gets a photo credit. ebmud_rrmp_1
- SWIMMING UPSTREAM AND HAVING FUN: Richard King explains holistic grazing in a Grasslands article from 2011. Excellent presentation on rotational grazing and the interaction of plants, soil, animals and agriculture. A good read. Swimming upstream and having fun_0
- SOME BACKGROUND ON ROTATIONAL GRAZING AT OHA: September 2018 notes from Erica to membership Background on rotation planning & how we got to Tier 3
- SPRING GRAZING COMMITTEE REPORT BACK: September 2020 grazing proposal revised 9.20
- NOTES FOR 2020-21 ROTATION PLAN: Adjusting management goals under climate change September 2020 2020-21 rotation notes
- NATIVE GRASSES OF EBMUD WATERSHED adapted by Kerry Blackwell: Native Grasses of EBMUD Watershed
| Attachments |
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| teasel flyer 2013 |
| Purple Star Thistle: Cal-IPC_ Invasive Plants of California’s Wildland.pdf |
| yst seedling.jpeg |
| Hemlock:Cal-IPC_hemlock.pdf |
| milkthistle.jpg |
