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This manual contains three types of activities. First there are introductory, or awareness-building, activities. The second type focuses on both beneficial and detrimental characteristics of exotics. And finally there are activities intended as reinforcers. The best advantage can be gained from this set by selecting at least one introductory activity and several from the second set and following up with routine monitoring of a nonindigenous species in your community.
This booklet is the 2019 revision of a similar booklet published in 2001 and the second edition. This updated edition of the guides provide management suggestions for most listed species based on a synthesis of field trials and greenhouse experiments mostly conducted in the arid southwest. The second edition included most of the invasive plant species that appeared in the 1st edition with several species added. The updated booklet is not intended to provide a comprehensive list of all of Arizona’s invasive weeds, but rather, it illustrates a few invasive plants that have become, or have the potential to become, problematic in Arizona. Publication Number: AZ1482-2016