Lake County Co-Operative Weed Management Area

Lake County Co-Operative Weed Management Area, operating as Lccwma, is a tax-exempt nonprofit agricultural cooperative headquartered in Lakeview, Oregon. The organization has been registered to receive federal awards since April 2009 and specializes in invasive species management and weed control services delivered through federal grant awards. Lccwma provides critical ecological management services that support the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's conservation objectives across protected federal lands in the Pacific Northwest.

Lccwma has received four prime federal cooperative agreement awards totaling efforts focused on invasive species management and treatment on Hart Mountain and Sheldon National Wildlife Refuges. The most recent award, executed July 6, 2025, by the DOI Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1, provides treatments on high-priority invasive species and sensitive areas within these refuges, with completion targeted for July 5, 2026. A preceding cooperative agreement from July 1, 2024, completed June 30, 2025, carried out similar invasive species treatment work on these same refuges. Additionally, Lccwma received a comprehensive inventory and treatment cooperative agreement dated June 1, 2021, which established baseline occurrence and coverage data for invasive species across the Sheldon-Hart Mountain National Wildlife Refuge Complex while providing rapid-response treatments on newly established priority species through September 2024. The organization also received a cooperative agreement from the Oregon-Washington Region on June 4, 2021, designated for the ORWA SRS Klamath County O&C project, which concluded March 31, 2024. These awards demonstrate Lccwma's consistent engagement in mapping, inventory, treatment planning, and direct invasive species management services that enable federal wildlife refuges to achieve long-term ecological management goals and habitat preservation objectives.