Range and natural resources in Fort Hall Reservation

Range and natural resources

UI Extension, Fort Hall Reservation coordinates natural resource programs and projects with local, state and federal agencies. These programs include:

• Range monitoring
• Range rehabilitation seeding  
• Fire management
• Noxious weed management
• Other important issues that arise with natural resources

Range monitoring

We offer training about starting range monitoring before and after prescribed burning. Prescribed burning can limit wildfires. Monitoring can also be used for livestock grazing and grazing management.

Range seeding

UI Extension, Fort Hall Reservation develops and manages seeding plans to help rangeland recover after major fires. Our office coordinates these efforts with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and other tribal departments.

Noxious weeds

Noxious weeds are plants that are a nuisance, hazardous, or cause injury to people, animals, landscapes, and crops. These plants compete for water, light, and nutrients. Noxious weeds can adversely affect human and animal health, the environment, the quality of crop, forage and hay, aesthetics, recreation, and economics.

Noxious weeds of major concern in Fort Hall include Russian knapweed, rush skeletonweed, whitetop, poison hemlock, houndstongue, black henbane, field bindweed, dyer’s woad and Canada, musk and scotch thistle. For more information about these weeds or to have weeds identified, please contact our office.

Contact the UI Extension, Fort Hall Reservation office at forthall@uidaho.edu or 208-236-1044 for information on current classes and programs.