
YAMPA RIVER LEAFY SPURGE PROJECT
Show Me Floats
The YRLSP sponsors an annual “Show Me Float” to introduce interested stakeholders to the leafy spurge problem from a river perspective. Typically a one-day event, YRLSP volunteers provide the boats and gear for an instructive float down a local section of the Yampa River in the Craig area. The beauty of this often out-of-sight natural resource can be surprising, even to longtime residents, while the implications of the leafy spurge infestations along the way become clear.
In 2021 we also sponsored a two-day, overnight Show Me Float down the Little Yampa Canyon, and since 2023 participants have also gotten hands-on experience releasing leafy biological control beetles.
Below are a sampling of photographs from past Show Me Floats.
2025 Show Me Float

The 2025 Show Me Float introduced members of the Colorado Noxious Weed Advisory Committee to the YRLSP's biological control efforts in the Yampa Basin.
2024 Show Me Float




2023 Show Me Float



