TRI-COUNTY CWMA

During the early 1990s, land managers recognized that controlling noxious weeds at a landscape scale required a multi-jurisdictional level of cooperation. With that in mind, the local governments of Baker, Union, and Wallowa Counties, along with the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service, Oregon Dept. of Fish and Wildlife, and Boise Cascade agreed to form a cooperative weed management area. In December of 1994, Tri-County CWMA was formed by an Intergovernmental Agreement under the legal authority of ORS 190.010. Since founded, Tri-County has grown from a single part-time position, to a group of full-time staff, managing over 35 different projects, covering nearly 8 million acres... For nearly 25 years, Tri-County has played an essential role in the local communities of Baker, Union, and Wallowa Counties. Most of Tri-County's projects are on federal lands and adjacent private lands, usually with a specific target weed species. Other projects, funded by the OSWB, OWEB, ODFW,..

Primary location: La Grande United States