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GENERAL NOTICE
TO DESTROY WEEDS
YOU ARE REQUIRED TO DESTROY
NOXIOUS WEEDS ON YOUR PROPERTY
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN this 16th day of April, 2019, pursuant to the
Idaho Noxious Weed law Section 22-2401, Idaho Code, to every person who owns land in Minidoka County. Noxious weeds standing, being, or growing on such land shall be controlled or eradicated by cutting, tillage, cropping, pasturing, chemical treatment, or other effective methods, thereof, approved by the County Weed Superintendent as often as may be required to prevent weeds from blooming and maturing to seed or spreading by root, root stalks, or other means.
Upon failure to observe this notice, County Weed Control Superintendent, Reid Smith is required to proceed pursuant to the law and have the weeds destroyed by such methods as he finds necessary. The property owner incurs the expenses or it shall constitute a lien and be entered as a tax against the land and be collected as other real estate taxes are collected or by other means as provided by law. The following weeds are hereby officially designated and published as being noxious.
Known infestation in Minidoka County include:
- Canada thistle Poison hemlock Syrian beancaper
- Scotch thistle Perennial sowthistle Perennial pepperweed
- Musk thistle Dyers woad Black henbane
- Russian knapweed Field bindweed Purple loosestrife
- Hoary cress (White top) Leafy spurge Puncturevine
- Diffuse knapweed Spotted knapweed Rush skeletonweed
- Houndstongue White Bryony Salt Cedar
State Noxious Weeds not known in Minidoka County include:
- Buffalobur Jointed goatgrass Toothed spurge
- Matgrass Tansy ragwort Johnsongrass
- Eurasian Watermilfoil Orange hawkweed Yellow toadflax
- Dalamation toadflax Skeletonleaf burasage Common crupina
- Milium Meadow hawkweed Meadow knapweed
- Silverleaf nightshade Yellow starthistle Scotch broom
- Brazilian elodea Mediterranean sage Squarrose knapweed
- Giant Hogweed Oxeye daisy Tall hawkweed
- Hoary alyssum Parrotfeather Vipers bugloss
- Hydrilla Plumeless thistle Water hyacinth
- Bohemian knotweed Policeman’s Helmet Yellow devil hawkweed
- Giant knotweed Small bugloss Japanese knotweed