Jackson County Noxious Weeds Resolution

RESOLUTION #1097-02-11-2025

NOXIOUS WEED CONTROL 2025

OFFICIAL NOTICE TO ALL PROPERTY OWNERS: BE IT RESOLVED by the Jackson

County Board of Supervisors, pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 317, Code of Iowa, 2019, it hereby is ordered:

1. That each owner and each person in the possession or control of any lands in Jackson County shall cut, burn, or otherwise destroy all noxious weeds thereon and shall keep said lands free from such growth of any other weeds, as shall render the streets or highways adjoining said land unsafe for public travel. Noxious weeds shall be cut or otherwise destroyed on or before the following dates and as often thereafter as is necessary to prevent seed production:

GROUP 1. MAY 15 for Palmer Amaranth, Wild Mustard, Japanese Hop, Japanese Knotweed, Marijuana, Poison Ivy, Sericea Lespedeza, Purple Loosestrife, Wild Cucumber, Wild Parsnip, Mile-a-minute Weed, Oriental Bittersweet and Waterhemp (Amaranthus tuberculatus).

GROUP 2. JUNE 21 for Leafy Spurge, Perennial Pepper Grass, Sour Dock, Smooth Dock, Sheep (red) Sorrell, Poison Hemlock, Multiflora Rose, Buckthorn, Wild Carrot, Teasel, and additional noxious weeds as declared by the Secretary of Agriculture not listed below.

GROUP 3. JUNE 30 for Russian Knapweed, Buckhorn Plantain.

GROUP 4. JULY 15 for Field Bindweed, Wild Sunflower.

GROUP 5. JULY 30 for Horsenettle, Quackgrass, Velvetleaf (Butterprint), Puncture Vine, Cocklebur, Shattercane.

GROUP 6. SEPTEMBER 1 for Musk Thistle, Canadian Thistle, Bull Thistle, Tall Thistle, Perennial Sowthistle, Plumeless Thistle, and all other species of thistles belonging in the genus of Carduss.

 2. That each owner and each person in the possession or control of any lands in Jackson County infested with noxious weeds, including those listed above, shall adopt a program of weed destruction described by the Board of Supervisors.

3. That if owners or persons in possession or control of any lands in Jackson County fail to comply with the foregoing orders, the Board of Supervisors shall cause this work to be done, and the expense of said work including the cost of serving notice and other costs, if any, to be assessed against the land and owners thereof.

4. That all complaints regarding noxious weeds shall be made to the Jackson County Conservation Office. If after investigation the complaint is found to be valid it will be forwarded to the Board of Supervisors.  

5. That official notice of this order shall be given by its publication in each of the official newspapers of Jackson County. 

Adopted and passed on this 11^th day of February, 2025.