Northern Utah CWMACooperative Weed Management Area
CWMA partners talking through a spray day at Coldwater Ranch

Northern Utah CWMA

Who We Are

Facilitating collaborative land management to get stuff done

What exactly is a CWMA?

A Cooperative Weed Management Area, known as a CWMA, prioritizes improving noxious weed control within designated areas. CWMAs utilize a variety of integrated weed management procedures to control and maintain weeds through cooperative efforts and resources of multiple departments and agencies across jurisdictional boundaries. Often CWMAs are able to secure substantial government funding because the scope of projects can be increased to include weeds across federal, state, county, municipal, and private properties.

We believe that together we can protect and improve Utah’s natural resources.

Working across borders

Northern Utah CWMA is a partnership consisting of government organizations, non-profits, private businesses, and private citizens who work to improve cross jurisdictional collaboration, facilitate acquisition of funding to support noxious weed management and ecosystem restoration, and implement noxious weed control using the most current science. The organization strives to be a resource for our local community.

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Our objectives

Working together to help our community

Strategic Plans

Maintaining strategic noxious weed control and land restoration plans based on integrated weed management practices and other relevant science.

Reducing Impact

Supporting land use actions that improve natural resource health, wildlife habitat, water quality, agriculture, and human health while also controlling noxious weeds.

Grant Resources

Seeking grant sources to support noxious weed control and noxious weed impacted lands restoration plans and outreach initiatives.

Collaboration

Promoting coordination of programs and resources to optimize impact while minimizing the duplication of efforts. We improve the capacity of each partner when we work together toward a shared goal.

Habitat Restoration

Improving habitat restoration strategies throughout and adjacent to northern Utah by incorporating research, partnerships, land management practices and monitoring into projects to produce effective, repeatable results.

Education and Outreach

Harnessing the power of our community by educating and incentivizing participation.

Current leadership

Officers

Northern Utah CWMA Committee

Where we work

Six counties, and past them when it matters

Our primary work is within the 6 northern counties in Utah, inclusive of Utah Conservation Districts 1 and 2. However, we recognize that noxious weeds know no borders. As a cross jurisdictional partnership, we remain open to projects beyond our current project boundaries when new partnerships and project areas will expand our capacity to make meaningful impact on noxious weeds and enhance habitat quality.

A partnership of county, state, federal and private members working across jurisdictional lines since 2018.

Since 2018, the Northern Utah CWMA has brought in over $550,000 to the northern Utah area to map, control and monitor noxious weeds and restore ecosystems impacted by weeds.