Integrated Pest Management Hotline - Posted August 24, 2012

This information was posted on Friday, August 24, 2012, for applications that will take place during August 27-31.

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Urban Forest Division | Transportation/Maintenance | Open Space & Mountain Parks
Parks & Recreation | Flatirons Golf Course

Urban Forestry Division

Urban Forestry will place pheromone packets in all the Scotch and Austrian pine trees on Pearl Street Mall; the pheromones will be up from July through October, 2012. The packets contain a mountain pine beetle anti-aggregation pheromone to prevent attack by mountain pine beetles.

Contact Kathleen Alexander, Parks & Recreation Forestry at 303-441-3406, for more information.

Transportation/Maintenance

Transportation Maintenance will cut the foliage of Japanese knotweed and inject the cut stems with Rodeo, an EPA Category III herbicide, at east side of 4th Street between Linden and Kalmia.

Contact Peter Rosato, Transportation Maintenance, 303-413-7116 for more information.

Open Space & Mountain Parks

Open Space and Mountain Parks (OSMP) will apply Plateau, an EPA Category III herbicide, to leafy spurge on approximately 1/100th of an acre at the Tippet/ Four Pines property, located at 17th and King.

OSMP will apply Garlon 4, an EPA Category III herbicide, to cut stumps of bladder senna on the Wittemyer property, located north of Sunshine Canyon and west of Mount Sanitas Trail.

OSMP will apply Garlon 4, an EPA Category III herbicide, to cut stumps of invasive trees on the T.H.P. property, located East of Highway 93 and South of South Boulder Creek.

OSMP will cut-stump apply Garlon 4 and Rodeo, EPA Category III herbicides, to Russian olive on the Weiser property, located east of 75th Street and north of Valmont Road.

OSMP staff will spot apply Rodeo, an EPA Category III herbicide, to purple loosestrife on the following properties:

• Lousberg and Belgrove properties, located north and south of Jay Road and west of the Diagonal Highway
• Axelson property, located west of 55th Street and north of Jay Road
• Ryan property, located north of Nelson Road and west of N 49th Street
• Wonderland Lake property, located west of Broadway and south of Utica Avenue

Contact Eric Fairlee, Open Space and Mountain Parks Department, 303-413-7647 for more information.

Parks & Recreation Urban Resources

Parks and Recreation Urban Resources has no applications planned.

Contact Joy Master, Parks and Recreation Urban Resources, 303-413-7261 for more information.

Parks & Recreation Parks Operations

Parks & Recreation Parks Operations will spot apply Nature's Avenger, a natural herbicide, to various weeds in the landscaped areas of Central Park and the landscaped beds of the municipal building and the main library.

Parks & Recreation will be applying fertilizer (no pesticide) to the turf of the south side of Valmont Park, located at Valmont and Airport Roads.

Contact Carey Sager, Parks & Recreation Parks Operations, 303-441-3858, for more information.

Flatirons Golf Course

Flatirons Golf Course will spot apply clopyralid, an EPA Category III herbicide, to clover in the turf at Flatirons Golf Course, located at 5706 Arapahoe.

Contact Dave Brown, Parks & Recreation Flatirons Golf Course, at (303) 443-5171 for more information.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 09 October 2012 07:39