YAMPA RIVER LEAFY SPURGE PROJECT
Integrated Management
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Introduction
Introduction
Although conventional herbicide treatment of upland leafy spurge infestations has been the norm in the Yampa River Basin, the use of biological control agents also dates back to at least 1989. Unfortunately, in the early years recordkeeping was sometimes incomplete, and (with the exception of Tepee Draw) virtually no follow-up monitoring was ever conducted. In the absence of such data, the relative success or failure of these “legacy” biological control releases was never substantiated.