Weed Cost-Share Program

2023 noxious weeds

The Garfield County Commissioners have partnered once again with the Bookcliff, Mount Sopris and South Side Conservation Districts to provide cost sharing financial assistance to landowners for controlling noxious weeds.

To arrange an on-site visit, mandatory for cost-share participation, please call Garfield County Vegetation Management at 970-945-1377 ext. 4315 or 4305, or the conservation district office at 970-404-3439. This visit is required before the application is accepted.

Applications can be found online, and will also be provided during a site visit. Included in the application is a weed management plan form – including application deadlines – and a weed share policy page. Please make sure the application is filled out in its entirety. If you have questions about completing the application, please call the Vegetation Management office at (970) 945-1377, ext. 4315 or 4305.

Cost-share funds will be limited to $125 an acre ($250 total cost), maximum of $1,000 per landowner. Reimbursements may be up to 50 percent of costs if using a contractor or up to 75 percent of material costs to do it yourself. Reimbursement funds are limited, therefore ineffective materials, incorrect rates, less than optimum treatment timing, and off label treatments will not be cost shared. Materials purchased must be used in current year. A 1099 will be issued to all payments over $600. If you want your full reimbursement, you must put your social security number on the application.

Only Colorado State Department of Agriculture approved treatments will be reimbursed.

For more information on specific weeds, go to the Colorado Department of Agriculture website. Fact sheets can be requested by calling (970) 945-1377, ext. 4305 or 4315.

Paid receipt or canceled check is required before reimbursement is made. As always, invoice with chemicals used and application rate required. Paid commercial applicators invoice MUST have commercial applicators license number on the bill.

All applications are subject to review by the Noxious Weed Cost Share Review Committee which consists of representatives of Bookcliff, Mount Sopris & South Side Conservation Districts and the Garfield County Weed Advisory Board.

Garfield County Noxious Weed List

Common name	Scientific name
Absinth wormwood	Artemesia absinthium
Black henbane	Hyoscyamus niger
Bouncingbet	Saponaria officinalis
Bull thistle	Cirsium vulgare
Canada thistle	Cirsium arvense
Chicory	Cichorium intybus
Chinese clematis	Clematis orientalis
Common burdock	Arctium minus
Common tansy	Tanacetum vulgare
Common teasel	Dipsacus fullonum
Corn chamomile	Anthemis arvensis
Curly dock	Rumex crispus
Cutleaf teasel	Dipsacus laciniatus
Cypress spurge	Euphorbia cyparissias
Dalmatian toadflax	Linaria dalmatica
Dame’s rocket	Hesperis matronalis
Diffuse knapweed	Centaurea diffusa
Hoary cress	Lepidium draba
Houndstongue	Cynoglossum officinale
Jointed goatgrass	Aegilops cylindrica
Leafy spurge	Euphorbia esula
Mayweed chamomile	Anthemis cotula
Meadow knapweed	Centaurea x moncktonii
Mediterranean sage	Salvia aethiopsis
Musk thistle	Carduus nutans
Myrtle spurge	Euphorbia myrsinites
Oxeye daisy	Leucanthemum vulgare
Perennial pepperweed	Lepidium latifolium
Plumeless thistle	Carduus acanthoides
Poison hemlock	Conium maculatum
Purple loosestrife	Lythrum salicaria
Russian knapweed	Acroptilon repens
Russian olive	Elaeagnus angustifolia
Salt cedar	Tamarix parviflora, Tamarix ramosissima
Scentless chamomile	Tripleurospermum perforatum
Scotch thistle	Onopordum acanthium
Spotted knapweed	Centaurea maculosa
Sulfur cinquefoil	Potentilla recta
Yellow starthistle	Centaurea solstitalis
Yellow toadflax	Linaria vulgaris

Please note we will also cost share for the following State of Colorado List A species: African rue, camelthorn, common crupina, cypress spurge, dyers woad, giant salvinia, hydrilla, meadow knapweed, Mediterranean sage, medusahead rye, myrtle spurge, rush skeletonweed, sericea lespedeza, squarrose knapweed, tansy ragwort and the List B species: absinth wormwood, black henbane, Chinese clematis, common teasel, and common tansy.

Cost share is also available for state-listed and watch list noxious trees, including Russian olive, tamarisk, and Siberian elm.

We will also cost share for the State of Colorado List C species: Cheatgrass.

As of 2020, all Colorado state-listed noxious weeds will be eligible for cost-share reimbursement. This includes A, B, C and Watch List species. Please note that all applications will be reviewed and reimbursements will be made at the discretion of the Cost Share Review Committee.