Kern County Fire Department Helps Audubon and
Fish & Game with Invasive Weeds
LINKS
CNPS Policy on Invasive
Exotic Plants
Bureau of Land Management's Weeds Website
CalFlora -- expanded weed photos and
mapping
California's Noxious Weeds -- a California Department of Food and
Agriculture page
CalWeeds Database - weed
control projects inventory
Cornell Report on the costs of exotics
InvasiveSpecies.Gov - The Nation's
Invasive Species Information System
National Agricultural Pest
Information System (NAPIS)
Weeds Gone Wild
Weed Research and Information Center --
UC Davis
FACT SHEETS FROM THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
Plants
Tree-of-heaven (Ailanthus
altissima)
Silk tree (Albizia
julibrissin)
Giant reed (Arundo
donax)
Yellow starthistle
(Centaurea solstitialis)
Canada thistle (Cirsium
arvense)
English ivy (Hedera
helix)
Perennial pepperweed
(Lepidium latifolium)
Purple loosestrife
(Lythrum salicaria)
Eurasian watermilfoil
(Myriophyllum spicatum)
Fountain grass (Pennisetum
setaceum)
Black locust (Robinia
pseudoacacia)
Salt cedar (Tamarix
species)
Siberian elm (Ulmus
pumila)
Common mullein (Verbascum
thapsus)
General Educational
What the heck is an
Invasive Plant? - Printable brochure - PDF (810 KB)
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INVASIVE SPECIES ERADICATION
Staff and volunteers of the
Kern River Preserve have spent over a decade
fighting invasive species. These efforts have
paid off with one of the most native forests in
western North America.
Each year staff of the Kern
River Preserve and the California Department of
Fish & Game spent time eradicating purple
loosestrife and perennial pepperweed from
Sprague Ranch and nearby South Fork lands.
Perennial Pepperweed KRV Invasive Species
Purple loosestrife KRV Invasive Species Info
Salt Cedar KRV Invasive
Species Info
Giant Cane
KRV Invasive Species Info
Each of us can help prevent
the spread of invasive plants and animals. You
can help by learning which species can become
invasive and eradicate these from your own
yards. Help to educate your local nurseries
about the problem with invasives and get them to
stop selling problem plants. Contact your
legislator and local agriculture commissioner to
make sure no invasives are sold or promoted in
your county or town.
The
following list contains invasive plants that can
threaten ecosystems of the Kern River Valley.
tree-of-heaven - Ailanthus
altissima
giant cane - Arundo donax
Australian saltbush -
Atriplex semibaccata
bassia - Bassia hyssopifolia
Sahara mustard - Brassica
tournefortii
red brome - Bromus madritensis ssp. rubens
cheatgrass - Bromus tectorum
lens-podded hoary cress - Cardaria
chalepensis
white top - Cardaria draba
Italian thistle - Carduus pycnocephalus
tocolote - Centaurea melitensis
yellow starthistle - Centaurea solstitialis
Canada thistle - Cirsium
arvense
bull thistle - Cirsium vulgare
poison hemlock - Conium maculatum
artichoke thistle - Cynara
cardunculus
Scotch broom - Cytisus
scoparius
water hyacinth -
Eichhornia crassipes
Russian olive - Elaeagnus
angustifolia
edible fig - Ficus carica
fennel - Foeniculum
vulgare
French broom - Genista
monspessulana
perennial pepperweed - Lepidium latifolium
purple loosestrife -
Lythrum salicaria
fountain grass- Pennisetum
setaceum
Harding grass - Phalaris
aquatica
castor bean - Ricinus
communis
black locust - Robinia
pseudoacacia
Himalayan blackberry -
Rubus discolor
Mediterranean grass -
Schismus arabicus
Spanish broom - Spartium
junceum
medusahead -
Taeniatherum caput-medusae
smallflower tamarisk -
Tamarix parviflora
saltcedar -
Tamarix ramosissima
wooly mullein - Verbascum
thapsus
periwinkle -Vinca major
Invasive Animals
The
following list is of invasive animals that
threaten native species in the Kern River
Valley.
FISH
goldfish -
Carassius auratus
common carp -
Cyprinus carpio
brown trout - Salmo
trutta
brook trout -
Salvelinus fontinalis
white bass - Morone
chrysops
AMPHIBIANS
American Bullfrog - Rana catesbeiana
Tiger Salamander
- Ambystoma
tigrinum
REPTILES
Red-eared Slider -
Trachemys scripta elegans
Yellowbelly Slider -
Trachemys scripta scripta
Texas Tortoise
- Gopherus berlandieri
BIRDS
Rock
Pigeon -
Columba livia
Eurasian Collared-Dove -
Streptopelia decaocto
European Starling -
Sturnus vulgaris
House Sparrow -
Passer domesticus
MAMMALS
Red
fox - Vulpes vulpes
Feral dog - Canis
familiaris
Feral cat - Felis
catus
Wild pig - Sus
scrofa
Domestic goat -
Ovis aries
Fox squirrel -
Sciurus niger
Black rat - Rattus
rattus*
House mouse - Mus
musculus
European rabbit -
Oryctolagus cuniculus
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