Wisconsin Regional and County Weed Groups

This is a list of informal groups and contacts for people working on invasive issues in different parts of Wisconsin. Most are not formal organizations, but groups of people working together on issues in their region. Some of them meet on a regular basis and have active projects, others are just getting started. Download the PDF map (208KB)

• North Woods CWMA (Ashland, Bayfield, Douglas, Iron) - Darienne McNamara, darienne.mcnamara@gmail.com (715)373-5964 www.northwoodscwma.org
  
  
• Giant Hogweed CWMA (Iron and Gogebic, MI) - Ian Shackleford, Ottawa National Forest, ishackleford@fs.fed.us (906) 932-1330 ext. 508
  
  
• Upper Chippewa CWMA (Sawyer, Price, Rusk and Taylor) - Marjy  Brzeskiewicz, Chequamegon/Nicolet National Forest, mbrzeskiewicz@fs.fed.us, willow@pctcnet.net 715-762-5199.
  
  
• Wisconsin Headwaters Invasives Partnership (Vilas/Oneida Co.) - Ted Ritter, Vilas Co. Land Conservation Dept., teritt@co.vilas.wi.us (715) 479-3738
  
  
• Presque Isle Garlic Mustard Group - Merrill Horswill, nirvanas3@yahoo.com
  
  
• Wild Rivers CWMA (Forest/Florence Co.) - contact: wildriverscwma@gmail.comOr call: Robert Rouleau at 715-732-7642 or Anna Jahns at 715-450-4215 http://www.wrisc.org/
  
  
• Door Co. Invasive Species Team - dcist1@gmail.com 920-746-5955 http://map.co.door.wi.us/swcd/invasive/default.htm  DCIST Message Line: (920) 746-5955*
  
  
• Brown Co. Invasive Plant Group - Vijai Pandian, UW Extension Horticulture Agent, Brown Co. vijai.pandian@ces.uwex.edu (920) 391-4611
  
  
• Greater Sauk Co. Invasive Plant Team - John Exo, UW Extension Basin Educator, john.exo@ces.uwex.edu (608) 355-3554
  
  
• Invasives Removal Squad (Rock/Green/Jefferson Co.) - Jordan.Rowe@tallgrassrestoration.com (847)925-9830
  
  
• Southeast Wisconsin Invasive Species Consortium (SEWISC) - Marc White, Coordinator Info@SEWISC.org   http://sewisc.org
  
  
• Monroe Co. Invasive Plant Team, david.beckmann1@us.army.mil (608) 388-5374
  
  
• South West Weed Management Area (Grant, Crawford, Lafayette, Iowa, Richland, Dane, Sauk) Mark Horn (608)836-0054 mark.horn@monarda.biz
  
  
• Madison Area Weed Warriors - Tammy Bieberstein, jybolybey@yahoo.com  (608) 257-1329)

The following are contacts for anyone interested in helping to start a regional group. No formal groups have been developed for these areas, but the following people are interested in doing so:

• Military Ridge Heritage Area - Katie Abbot, katie.abbott@rcdnet.net
• Manitowoc Co. - Tom Ward, TomWard@co.manitowoc.wi.us,  (920) 683-4184
• Calumet County - Diane Schauer  schauer.diane@co.calument.wi.us (920)849-2361
• W. Dane/E. Iowa Co. - Cindy Ramseyer, naturekeep@tds.net
• The Prairie Enthusiasts (several regional chapters), TPE@ThePrairieEnthusiasts.org  (608) 826-0559 www.theprairieenthusiasts.org

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