Government Success in Partnerships: The USDA-ARS Areawide Ecologically Based Invasive Annual Grass Management Program

Abstract

L ong-term research about complicated pest man- agement issues creates incremental knowledge that systematically solves problems. But once knowledge is well-enough advanced to dramati- cally improve the success of pest management, it is of little value unless that knowledge and technology are transferred to the intended users. Furthermore, the implementation of such technologies on a eld-by- eld level will have little impact on pest issues that cross regions, states, and some- times countries. Since the mid-1990s, the US Department of Agriculture–Agricultural Research Service (USDA- ARS) has funded an Areawide Pest Management program to address both of these issues. DOI: 10.2458/azu_rangelands_v34i4_smith