Invasive Plants in the Chilcotin Forest District

New Invaders

The Cariboo-Chilcotin-Coast Invasive plant Committee (CCCIPC) developed the following four catagories of Invasive Plants. "The first priority group of invasive plants are called 'new invaders'. This group includes invasive plants that are newly established in the area or are found in nearby jurisdictions and are expected to flourish in this region if they do become established. Increasing awareness of these species is critical to successful management of these new invaders, as it is much easier to treat invasive plants when the infestations are new and relatively small. The management objective for new invaders is identification and extirpation of all sites." To contact Crystal Wheeler at the Chilcotin Forest District, click here.
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Baby's Breath	Hoary Alyssum	Marsh Thistle
Perennial Pepperweed	Purple Loosestrife	Blueweed
Diffuse Knapweed	Field Scabious	Himalayan balsam
Hound's-Tongue	Japanese Knotweed	Orange Hawkweed Info in PDF Format
Sulpher Cinquefoil Info in PDF format	Introduced Yellow Hawkweeds

"The second group of invasive plants is called "contaimment". This group includes invasive plants species that are well established in the region, but have not yet infested all of the potential habitat available in the region. These species either have containment areas outside of which infestations should be eliminated or have few enough known sites so they will be managed to prevent further spread."

To contact Crystal Wheeler at the Chilcotin Forest District, click here.

"The third priority of invasive plants in our region are labelled as "established". This group includes species that are common and widespread and have already spread to most or all potential habitat in the region. There are no biocontrol agents currently available for species in this group. Control of these species will require cooperative and intensive efforts or the development and release of effective biocontrol agents. Although control is likely not possible in many areas of the region, treatment of these species may be a priority in local areas where unacceptable impacts have occurred and cooperative management is possible."

To contact Crystal Wheeler at the Chilcotin Forst Districtl, click here.

"The fourth priority of invasive plants are those that are well established throughout the region, but for which effective biocontrol agents have been released and are currently controlling the abundance, vigour or distribution of the invasive plants. Monitoring of these species must be done to ensure the continuing effectiveness of the biocontrol agents. Further releases of the biocontrol agents may be required for new isolated infestation sites and chemical or mechanical control may be used for new or small infestations."

To contact Crystal Wheeler at the Chilcotin Forest District, click here.