What is TEAM Leafy Spurge?
Note: This information was compiled early in the TEAM Leafy Spurge project and describes how the program was organized. TEAM Leafy Spurge The Ecological Area-wide Management (TEAM) Leafy Spurge is a $4.5 million, five-year USDA-ARS research and demonstration program focusing on the Little Missouri drainage in Wyoming, Montana and the Dakotas. Its goal is to research, develop and demonstrate ecologically based Integrated Pest Management strategies that landowners and land managers can use to achieve effective, affordable and sustainable leafy spurge control. Funded by the USDA-ARS and managed cooperatively with the USDA-APHIS, TEAM Leafy Spurge stresses partnerships, teamwork and a cooperative approach to solving the leafy spurge problem. TEAM members include state and federal agencies, state Cooperative Extension Services, land grand universities, weed managers, county and other local entities, and private landowners and ranchers. TEAMs team TEAM Leafy Spurge is managed by the USDA-ARS
