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  Welcome to Invasive Plant Early Detection and Rapid Response Training.
  

  These courses are part of a state-wide effort to promote early detection and rapid response (EDRR) across the state of Montana and the region. The goal of EDRR is to recognize high priority plants and take actions to manage them while populations are still small, meaning they can be eradicated or controlled with much less cost financially and environmentally. In order to make EDRR work, you need to know how to identify plants you encounter in the field.
  

  Therefore, the first course in this 3-course series is an introduction to plant identification, covering essential plant anatomy terms to help you identify weeds. The second course describes diagnostic features of Montana’s Priority 1A-2A species, and the last course covers Montana’s Priority 2B-3 species.
  

  You must take the courses sequentially in the order presented and pass them with at least 70% before proceeding to the next course. The opportunity to attempt each quiz will not appear until you have gone through all of the required course materials.You may retake a course as many times as necessary to advance.

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  • Take Your Skills to the Next Level! Page
  • Enrollment Instructions & Helpful Tips Page
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  PESTICIDE CREDIT INFORMATION

  Before you begin this course, we need to collect some basic information from you, to ensure any pesticide credits are applied correctly. Please take a few minutes to provide answers to these questions, prior to beginning the course. This is especially important if you wish to receive credit for completing this course.

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  Topic 2

  PLANT ANATOMY FOR IDENTIFICATION
  

  • Goals & Objectives Page
  • Overview & Preparation Page
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  • Course Material
  • 1.1 Monocot vs Dicot File
  • 1.2 Leaves File
  • 1.3 Flowers File
  • 1.4 Fruits & Seeds File
  • 1.5 Stems & Roots File
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    Test Your Knowledge
    You must view all materials in each section before the quiz will appear. This includes ‘Goals and Objectives’, ‘Overview and Preparation’, and Course Material 1.1-1.5 above.
    
    
  • Quiz: Plant Anatomy
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    Certificate of Completion
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  Topic 3

  PLANT IDENTIFICATION: PRIORITY 1A, 1B & 2A SPECIES
  
  

  • Organization Page
  • Overview & Preparation Page
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  • Course Material
  • Priority 1A
  • 2.1 Description Page
  • 2.2 Yellow Starthistle File
  • Priority 1B
  • 2.3 Description Page
  • 2.4 Curlyleaf Pondweed File
  • 2.5 Dyer's Woad File
  • 2.6 Eurasian Watermilfoil File
  • 2.7 Flowering Rush File
  • 2.8 Knotweed Complex File
  • 2.9 Purple Loosestrife File
  • 2.10 Rush Skeletonweed File
  • 2.11 Scotch Broom File
  • Priority 2A
  • 2.12 Description Page
  • 2.13 Blueweed File
  • 2.14 Hoary Alyssum File
  • 2.15 Meadow Hawkweed Complex File
  • 2.16 Orange Hawkweed File
  • 2.17 Perennial Pepperweed File
  • 2.18 Tall Buttercup File
  • 2.19 Tansy Ragwort File
  • 2.20 Yellowflag Iris File
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    Test Your Knowledge
    You must view all materials in each section before the quiz will appear. This includes ‘Goals and Objectives’, ‘Overview and Preparation’, and Course Material 2.1 - 2.20 above.
    
    
  • Quiz: Priority 1A, 1B & 2A Species
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    Certificate of Completion
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  Topic 4

  PLANT IDENTIFICATION: PRIORITY 2B & 3 SPECIES
  
  

  • Organization Page
  • Overview & Preparation Page
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    Course Material
  • Priority 2B
  • 3.1 Description Page
  • 3.2 Canada Thistle File
  • 3.3 Common Tansy File
  • 3.4 Field Bindweed File
  • 3.5 Houndstongue File
  • 3.6 Knapweeds File
  • 3.7 Leafy Spurge File
  • 3.8 Oxeye Daisy File
  • 3.9 Salt Cedar File
  • 3.10 St Johnswort File
  • 3.11 Sulfur Cinquefoil File
  • 3.12 Toadflaxes: Dalmatian & Yellow File
  • 3.13 Whitetop File
  • Priority 3B
  • 3.14 Description Page
  • 3.15 Cheatgrass File
  • 3.16 Hydrilla File
  • 3.17 Russian Olive File
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    Test Your Knowledge
    
    You must view all materials in each section before the quiz will appear. This includes ‘Goals and Objectives’, ‘Overview and Preparation’, and Course Material 3.1-3.17 above.
    
    
  • Quiz: Priority 2B & 3B Species
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    Certificate of Completion
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  Topic 5

  Conclusion & Wrap-up:
  Now that you have completed the Invasive Plant Early Detection and Rapid Response Training we would love to receive any comments or suggestions that you may have. Please leave any feedback or questions you may for us here.
  
  
  

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