Medusahead is an unpalatable, aggressive annual that has been invading and degrading western rangelands. This characteristic has negative effects on plant diversity and ecosystem function, promoting the creation of homogeneous landscapes. The costs to wildland systems, agriculture, and the public are high and land managers face resource constraints that can limit successful management. Management plans need to be practical, cost-effective, and sustainable if they are to reach specific targets. Supplementing management plans with remote sensing can provide rapid and cost-effective datasets that can provide unique information that can be beneficial to land managers threatened by medusahead. Research has been successful in creating large datasets that include a 30+ year time line of changes in medusahead in eastern Washington.
Oral presentation and poster titles, abstracts, and authors from the Society for Range Management (SRM) Annual Meetings and Tradeshows, from 2013 forward.