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   The Upper Arkansas Cooperative Weed Management Area (UAWCMA) was established in 1998 to form partnerships with multiple organizations to raise awareness of noxious weeds through education and to identify, contain, and control the spread of noxious weeds throughout the upper Arkansas River watershed region.

Cooperating members of UACWMA include:

• Local governments in the following cooperating counties:   

​          Chaffee
          Custer
          El Paso    
          Fremont
          Huerfano
          Las Animas
          Lake (managed by Chaffee County)
          Park
          Pueblo
          Teller 

• Colorado Weed Management Association
• Colorado conservation districts, including--

          Bent County Conservation District (for Las Animas County)
          Custer County Conservation District
          El Paso County Conservation District 
          Fremont County Conservation District 
          Teller-Park Conservation District
          Turkey Creek Conservation District
          Upper Huerfano Conservation District
 

UACWMA caps  for sale. 

​These hats are just $15 plus shpping. Call Carol at (719) 783-2481 to find out  how much shipping costs to your mailing address. Make checks payable to Custer County CD and send them to Carol at P.O. Box 389, Silver Cliff, CO 81252.

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Orange Hawkweed (Hieracium aurantiacum)