A challenge to achieving healthy habitats in our yards, forests, and fields is the presence of invasive weed populations. Noxious weeds destroy biological diversity, decrease forage, increase erosion, and decrease land values across Island County. Join Seth Luginbill, Island County Noxious Weed Program Coordinator, as we explore Camano Island’s most prevalent invaders, provide tools and techniques for specific invasive species, and examine management principles in which landowners may control invasive plant species and improve native habitats. To identify, bring pictures or your backyard or pasture weeds in a bag to prevent spreading seeds during transport for identification! (It’s a good idea to not handle ones you really don’t know— for example poison hemlock.)