Rio Grande Basin Initiative

2007-08 Deliverables

Task 6 Extension
Principal Investigator(s): Michael Masser

Task 6: Environment, Ecology and Water Quality Protection

  1. Assist with new triploid grass carp demonstrations and provide annual progress reports on ongoing demonstrations to irrigation district managers. Reports are published through my annual Rio Grande District Aquatic Vegetation Management Newsletter.
  2. Conduct a demonstration on herbicide control of water hyacinth, water lettuce, hydrilla or other noxious aquatic vegetation as requested and provide a report to irrigation district managers. Reports are published through my annual Rio Grande District Aquatic Vegetation Management Newsletter.
  3. Continue to distribute posters on Invasive Aquatic Weeds of the Rio Grande as requested.
  4. Provide Master Naturalist trainings on aquatic ecology as requested.
  5. Offer aquatic vegetation management trainings as requested.
  6. Maintain the AQUAPLANT Web site with plant identification, management options and streaming video of aquatic vegetation control demonstrations.
  7. Support graduate student research into the effects of aquatic vegetation on flow in canals.
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