{"id":8987,"date":"2016-10-07T16:09:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T16:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idsunmedia.com\/?p=8987"},"modified":"2016-10-07T16:09:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T16:09:25","slug":"noxious-weeds-the-cancer-on-our-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/07\/noxious-weeds-the-cancer-on-our-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Noxious Weeds \u2013  The Cancer On Our Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">By Blaine County Noxious <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Weed Department<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8989\" src=\"https:\/\/idsunmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Chondrilla_juncea_IP0608229-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Chondrilla_juncea_IP0608229\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>C<\/span><span class=\"s2\">ontrolling and managing Idaho\u2019s 67 noxious weed species requires an understanding of the problem, and that begins with detection and identification of noxious weeds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">Noxious weeds cost Idaho millions of dollars by:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">\u2022 Fouling recreation sites <\/span><span class=\"s2\">from use<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">\u2022 Choking streams and <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>waterways<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">\u2022 Poisoning and injuring <\/span><span class=\"s2\">livestock and humans<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">\u2022 Crowding out beneficial <\/span><span class=\"s2\">native plants<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">\u2022 Degrading wildlife habitat<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">\u2022 Creating wildfires in our <\/span><span class=\"s2\">forests and on Idaho\u2019s <\/span><span class=\"s2\">rangeland<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">The spread of noxious weeds in Idaho may signal the decline of entire ecological watersheds. They severely impact the beauty and create widespread economic losses. Noxious weeds are huge problems for our urban as well as rural areas, and for private, state and federal lands. Valley County noxious weed species spare no segment of society \u2013 rancher, hunter, hiker and fisherman alike \u2013 and when unmanaged, they spread rapidly and unceasingly and silently.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">Noxious weeds pose a serious threat to all Idahoans and to the land we call home. Booklets with information about the 67 noxious weeds in Idaho are available at the Blaine County Noxious Weed Department, located at 302 S. 1st Ave. in Hailey.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Blaine County Noxious Weed Department Controlling and managing Idaho\u2019s 67 noxious weed species requires an understanding of the problem, and that begins with detection and identification of noxious weeds. Noxious weeds cost Idaho millions of dollars by: \u2022 Fouling recreation sites from use \u2022 Choking streams and \u00a0waterways \u2022 Poisoning and injuring livestock and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sponsored","category-weed-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}