Project Highlights:

   Gorse Project – Calaveras County

• The scope of this project was to find the current infestations of gorse in Calaveras County and to eradicate the plant.

   Yellow Star Thistle Cost Share Program – Tuoloumne County

• The Tuoloumne County Agricultural Commissioner’s Office in association with the Central Sierra Partnership Against Weeds and the California Department of Food and Agriculture has received funding to assist landowners with controlling the eastern edge movement of Yellow Starthistle and other rated noxious weeds. This funding is specific to the 2500’ – 4000’ elevations of Tuoloumne County. These funds are only available for 2008 and 2009 while funding lasts. Workshops will be scheduled in 2008 and 2009 for those willing to participate in the program and how to manage their land for weed control and how to prevent additional weed infestations.

   Smooth Distaff Thistle Cost Share Program – Tuoloumne County

• Smooth distaff thistle is a B rated noxious weed that has taken hold in many foothill communities. It was first mapped in Tuoloumne County in 1990 and has been spreading. This project will provide landowners with a 75% cost share to eliminate smooth distaff thistle from their property. The Tuoloumne County Agricultural Commissioner’s Office in association with the Central Sierra Partnership Against Weeds and the California Department of Food and Agriculture has received funding to assist landowners with controlling the eastern edge movement of Yellow Starthistle. This funding is specific to the 2500′ – 4000′ elevations of Tuoloumne County. These funds are only available for 2008 and 2009 while funding lasts. Workshops were hosted in 2008 and 2009 on how landowners can manage their land for weed control and how to prevent additional weed infestations.

Organizations on WMA’s MOU

• Alpine Watershed Group
• Army Corps of Engineers, New Hogan Lake
• Big Trees State Park
• Big Trees Village Homeowners Association
• Bureau of Land Management
• Calaveras County Board of Supervisors
• Calaveras County Department of Agriculture
• Calaveras Grown
• Calaveras River Watershed Management Program
• Calaveras River Watershed Stewardship Group
• Calaveras Winegrape Alliance
• California Cattlemen’s Association – Calaveras County
• California Cattlemen’s Association – Tuoloumne County
• California Department of Fish and Game
• California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
• California Department of Transportation – District 10
• California Native Plant Society – Sierra Foothill Chapter
• California Reforestation
• California State Parks
• CCWD
• Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center
• Central Sierra Resource Conservation District
• City of Sonora
• Calaveras Public Utilities District
• Data Aspects Corporation
• Don Pedro Recreation Agency
• Ebbetts Pass Property Owners Council
• EBMUD – Mokelumne Watershed
• Farm Bureau – Calaveras County
• Farm Bureau – Tuoloumne County
• Foothill Conservancy
• Golden Hills Subdivision
• Ground Control
• Groveland Community Service District
• Lost Hills Nursery
• Maynord Management
• Meadowmont Property Owners Association
• Mother Lode Land Trust
• Murphys Nursery
• Native Plant Society, Sierra Foothills Region
• NRCS – Watershed Coordinators Calaveras County
• Pacific Gas & Electric
• People for a Healthy Forest
• Pine Mountain Lake Association
• Red Store Nursery
• Rising Sun Nursery
• San Andreas Sanitary District
• Sierra Pacific Industries
• Tuoloumne County Alliance for Resources & Environment
• Tuoloumne County Department of Agriculture
• Tuoloumne County Public Works
• Tuoloumne County Resource Conservation District
• Tuoloumne Mi-Wuk Tribal Council
• Tuoloumne Parks and Recreation District
• Tuoloumne Utilities District
• Twain Harte Community Service District
• U.S. Forest Service, Stanislaus National Forest
• U.C. Cooperative Extension – Calaveras County
• U.C. Cooperative Extension – Tuolumne County
• Upper Mokelumne River Watershed Group
• USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
• USFS, Hathaway Pines District Office
• Wilbur-Ellis Company