Here to Help With All Your Pest Problems
YCPCD’s main focus is to uphold the Colorado Noxious Weed Act and to control the noxious weeds listed by Yuma County. YCPCD has also established a grasshopper control program. This program is a cost share program for grasshopper control on range, pasture, and grasslands. YCPCD established a Black-tailed prairie dog mitigation/cost share program in 2006.
Noxious Weed Program
-YCPCD offers a cost share program on equipment and herbicide.
-YCPCD can help landowners identify noxious/invasive weeds and recommend a management practice.
-YCPCD can help landowners with long range noxious weed management plans.
-YCPCD is a commercial applicator and can make herbicide applications on private property.
-YCPCD controls noxious weeds on county rights-of-ways.
Black-tailed Prairie Dog Program
-YCPCD will cost share on equipment, bait, and commercial applications.
-YCPCD is a commercial applicator and can control Black-tailed prairie dogs when requested by a landowner.
Grasshopper Program
At the discretion of the YCPCD Board of Directors, they will decide on a yearly basis if we will do a cost share on grasshopper spraying depending on the availability of program funding.
-YCPCD will cost share on applications made to rangeland, pasture, or grassland.
-YCPCD and USDA APHIS will map infestations for landowners.
-YCPCD will help outline different control methods for landowners.
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-YCPCD can help landowners figure out the economic threshold for grasshopper control.