Weed Control in Summit County

The number of invasive, noxious weeds so common to our area has been knocked down a notch this summer.

"We've gotten a lot of work done," said Lisa Taylor, who heads the Summit County Weed Program, a local group charged by the Board of County Commissioners to control invasive species of noxious weeds from inhabiting native areas around Summit County. When even small weed infestations are left unchecked, they can spread like biological wildfire, plaguing lands that may never recover from the arrival of an invasive species.

The weed control season is coming to a close as summer starts to wane - weed control is concentrated from May through September.

Taylor's group is finishing up a season spent spraying from one end of the county to the other. According to Taylor, her group completed two "treatments" on all of the county's major roads. Some of the more traveled corridors that got the full treatment this season were along Highway 9 from the Grand County line to the town of Silverthorne, along Highway 6 from the town of Dillon to the top of Loveland Pass, on the roadside between the towns of Frisco and Breckenridge and on the south end of the county from Breckenridge to the top of Hoosier Pass.