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| 12/25/2008 6:00:00 AM | Email this article • Print this article | Tamarisk group earns Partnership Award
The Dolores Tamarisk Action Group was recently awarded the Partnership Award from the Colorado Weed Management Association.
DTAG represents a successful partnership and signifies what can be done when people work together towards a common goal, according to a statement from DTAG.
DTAG was formed in 2005 to develop a strategy to eradicate tamarisk and Russian-olive from McPhee Reservoir and all tributaries above it. Notches on DTAG's "belt" include: Raising more than $45,000 in grants, extensive mapping of tamarisk and Russian-olive, completed inventory of tamarisk in Montezuma County, herbicide treatment of 50 miles of shoreline at McPhee Reservoir, recruitment of several volunteers to perform cut-stump treatments, and the coordination of a successful aerial treatments on more than 200 acres of the Upper McElmo Watershed, according to DTAG.
This last project was accomplished by DTAG contacting and gaining permission and participation from 80 landowners in the watershed. DTAG also offers a cost-share program to private landowners for the cost of herbicides to treat tamarisk.
For more information, visit the Colorado Weed Management Web site at www.CWMW.org.
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