HUNTER BLOCK MANAGEMENT
The Sweet Grass Hills Weed
Management Group
A STUDY IN SPREADING
THE WORD ON WEEDS
Vehicles spread weeds. It's a fact landowners in the Sweet Grass Hills Weed Management Group clearly understand. The group, which also participates in Montana's Block Management Area hunter-access program, knew that allowing hunters onto their property jeopardized their own weed control efforts. But they didn't pull out of the program.
The landowners saw it as an opportunity to spread knowledge about weeds. To hunt on their land, hunters follow a few simple rules. For example, hunters are asked to wash the undercarriage of vehicles before entering. Vehicles and ATVs are restricted to established roads. Weed-seed-free hay is required for hunting stock.
Most hunters gladly comply and feel good about their role in helping ranchers and wildlife. "Once they know what to do, hunters often make weed control a habit, here and other places they hunt," says landowner Lance McDowell. "They go from being a part of the problem to part of the solution." That's not just stopping the spread. That's spreading the fight.
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