In a proactive effort to identify pest management priorities and lay a foundation for
future strategies, ranchers, industry representatives, and university specialists from
Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Utah, Washington, and
Wyoming formed a work group and assembled the following document. Members of the
group met for two days in June, 2005 in Bozeman, Montana, where they discussed the
implications of the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) for rangeland beef production in
terms of possible pesticide regulatory actions. At the workshop, they drafted a
document containing critical research, regulatory, and education needs, individual pest
descriptions, and management implications, activity timetables, and efficacy ratings of
various management tools against specific pests. The resulting document was reviewed
by the work group, including members not present at the meeting. The final result is this
comprehensive document addressing pest-specific critical needs for the rangeland beef
industry in the western United States. (source:Introduction)
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