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YRLSP in the News
Press Releases and News Articles
News Articles
"Routt and Moffat county commissioners call for continued federal funding for invasive weed control,"
Steamboat Pilot & Today,
May 1, 2025. Staff Report
"The latest victim of Trump cuts? Beetles keeping an invasive plant at bay in Colorado,"
Colorado Sun, April 29, 2025. Parker Yamasaki
"Volunteers drive to Idaho to collect weed-fighting beetles,"
Steamboat Pilot & Today, August 1, 2024. Staff Report
"Scourge of leafy spurge continues: Working group released 82,000 biocontrol insects in five years,"
Steamboat Pilot & Today, July 3, 2023. Suzie Romig
"The Leafy Spurge Project releases 30,000 biocontrol beetles along the Yampa River,"
Craig Press, August 30, 2022. Amber Delay
"The leafy spurge invasion: Group aims to combat spread of invasive plant species,"
Craig Press, June 14, 2022. Amber Delay
"Community Agriculture Alliance: Insects might contribute in battle against Leafy Spurge,"
Steamboat Pilot & Today, June 29, 2021. Tamara Naumann
"Planting the seeds of knowledge: Northwest Colorado kids learn ecological lessons on scourge of leafy spurge,"
Craig Press, July 12, 2019. Lauren Dodd
"Community Agriculture Alliance: Leafy Spurge is Bad News,"
Steamboat Pilot & Today, June 18, 2019. Tamara Naumann
"Meeting to address leafy spurge as threat to Northwest Colorado agriculture,"
Craig Press, April 17, 2019. Lauren Dodd
"Research on the Yampa River seeks to slow spread of highly invasive plant,"
Craig Press, September 24th 2018. Eleanor C. Hasenbeck
"Northwest Colorado officials tackle growing noxious weed infestation on Yampa River,"
Craig Press, July 8th 2017. Lauren Blair
YRLSP Press Releases
"Leafy Spurge Project Awarded Colorado Conservation Board Grant,"
September 19, 2018.
Industry Press Releases
"New study aimed at halting the spread of leafy spurge,"
Corteva Agriscience, 2019.
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