This partnership is located in iron county utah within the color country convergingrestoration landscape which encompasses the escalante desert watershed

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management under the Invasive and Noxious Plant Management program (CFDA 15.230), is providing $240,843.52 to the County of Iron, Utah to develop and implement a strategic Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program. The goal is to prevent, detect, inventory, control, and monitor invasive and noxious weed populations on public and private lands within the Color Country Converging Restoration Landscape in Iron County. This partnership aims to establish a unified framework for managing invasive species hotspots across multiple jurisdictions, leveraging resources, expertise, and authority to implement targeted control measures aligned with broader conservation goals. The award period runs from Aug 2024 to Aug 2028.

One of ironcounty s priorities is to promote ecosystem health and watershed restoration. A recognizedconcern is that invasive and noxious weeds jeopardize the health of our watershed by dominatingand permanently damaging our natural plant communities wildlife and biotic resources onpublic and private lands. These invasive plants threaten to feed natural disasters within ironcounty jeopardizing public safety. This partnership aims to develop a strategic integrated pestmanagement IPM program to prevent detect inventory control and monitor weedpopulations on public and private lands within color country converging restoration landscapein iron county. This partnership supports the county and BLM s mission of establishing a unifiedframework for managing invasive species hotspots along and within the border of privatecounty city properties and BLM land. Working together across multijurisdictional agencies allparties can leverage resources expertise and authority to implement targeted control measuresaligned with broader conservation goals. We are focusing treatment efforts with grant funding tospecific areas outlined in the invasive species management ISM plan.