8.01.010 Definitions.
The following defined words and terms shall have the indicated meanings:
“Brush” is a volunteer growth of bushes growing out of a place and shall include all cuttings from trees, bushes, and high and rank shrubbery growth, but shall not include sagebrush.
“Integrated management” means the planning and implementation of a coordinated program utilizing a variety of methods for managing noxious weeds and undesirable plants, the purpose of which is to achieve specified management objectives and promote desirable plant communities. Such methods may include, but are not limited to, education, preventive measures, good stewardship, and the following techniques:
1. “Biological management,” which means the use of an organism to disrupt the growth of noxious weeds and undesirable plants.
2. “Chemical management,” which means the use of herbicides or plant growth regulators to disrupt the growth of noxious weeds and undesirable plants.
3. “Cultural management,” which means methodologies or management practices that favor the growth of desirable plants, including maintaining an optimum fertility and plant moisture status in an area, planting at optimum density and spatial arrangement in an area, and planting species most suited to an area.
4. “Mechanical management,” which means methodologies or management practices that physically disrupt plant growth, including tilling, mowing, burning, flooding, mulching, hand pulling, hoeing, and grazing.
“Undesirable plant” means Russian, Spotted and Diffuse Knapweed, Leafy Spurge, and any other plant deemed undesirable by the Colorado legislature in Article 5.5 of Title 35, C.R.S., or declared as a primary undesirable plant by the Garfield County Undesirable Plant Advisory Commission.
“Weeds” or “noxious weeds” includes any vegetation commonly referred to as a weed, any unsightly, useless, troublesome or injurious herbaceous growing plant, or any vegetation which has been designated a noxious weed by the Colorado Commissioner of Agriculture.
“Xeriscaping” is a type of landscaping which emphasizes the conservation of water and the use of drought resistant native plants. (Ord. 327 §1, 1991; Amended Ord. 342 §1, 1993; Amended Ord. 700 §3, 2016)