New Montana Dashboard for Invasive Weeds

New Dashboard for Invasive Weeds

Natural Resource Managers, Weed Coordinators, and Interested Members of the Public,

The Montana Natural Heritage Program (MTNHP) has released a NEW INVASIVE WEED DASHBOARD that summarizes information in MTNHP databases on non-native vascular plants statewide or within user selected filters for County, Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, or Tribal jurisdictional boundaries.  In addition to displaying total counts of species and numbers of observations, the application includes relative density maps, maps displaying the cumulative risk of invasion by state-listed noxious weeds, a graphical summary of observations for individual species, and summaries of observations submitted to MTNHP over time and by data source.  Links to other information resources on non-native and native species are also included.  These include cumulative risk maps for state-listed noxious weeds in individual counties with output rescaled to just the county of interest.

If you know of weed data that has not been submitted to the MTNHP, have questions or suggestions on any aspect of this dashboard, or would be interested in other information such as a cumulative risk map for a custom list of invasive species scaled to a particular jurisdiction, please contact Bryce Maxell at bmaxell@mt.gov