2005 California Desert Exotic Mustard Roadside Survey

Interstate 5 - May 2005 - Raw data.
Fresno County

Surveyed and Copyright © 2005 by Craig Dremann

Box 361, Redwood City, CA 94064 - (650) 325-7333


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PICTURES

Sahara mustard

Sahara mustard



Interstate 5 - May 2005 - Raw data.

Results of a 70 mph windshield survey (or whatever the local speed limits were), Sahara mustard (Brassica tournefortii): Either not present; is present along roadsides or in medians; or is outside of the roadside to the fence line or has moved from the roadsides to infest adjacent land.

NS = No Sahara mustard was seen along roadside ditches; or if divided highway, also not seen in the roadside median, or in lands adjacent to the road.

RS = Road Sides were infested with Sahara mustard. MED = In divided highways, in medians.

DES = Sahara mustard has moved from the roadsides into the desert, agricultural areas, or other lands adjacent to the roadsides. FL = Only found along the highway cyclone-fence line, but is far enough off the roadside to pose an immediate problem for the lands adjacent to the fences. At the time of the survey, did not appear to be moving off the fence line yet.

SPECIES SURVEYED for:

BT = Brassica tournefortii or Sahara Mustard

PM = Post miles along highways, and numbers indicate the averages found not just at each post mile, but for 1/2 mile on either side of the post mile marker.

(Landmarks and other notes on other exotics or native plants will be in parentheses)



KINGS COUNTY - Notebook 196, pages 39-42

0-1 - NS
1 - NS - Iodine shrubland
2 - NS - Iodine shrubland
3 - NS - Iodine shrubland
4 - NS - Iodine shrubland
5 - NS - burned shrubland
6 - NS - roadside other mustards, grapes
7 - NS - roadside other mustards, grapes
8 - NS - roadsides sunflowers & mowed, grapes
9 - NS - roadsides mowed, orchard
10 - NS - roadsides mowed, grapes
11 - NS - roadsides mowed, grapes
12 - NS - roadsides mowed, grapes
13 - NS - roadsides sunflowers, plowed field

14 - NS - roadsides mowed, grapes
15 - NS - burn - California Aquaduct
16 - NS - hills, tarweeds
17 - NS - hills, native shrubs
18 - NS - hills, native shrubs
19 - NS - hills, native shrubs
20 - NS - hills, native shrubs
21 - NS - hills, native shrubs
22 - NS - hills, native shrubs
23 - NS - hills, native shrubs
24 - RS - rare where native shrubs are gone
25 - RS - solid in places and scattered
26 - RS - rare to scattered, to solid at exit overpass
27 - RS - solid in places

FRESNO COUNTY, northward from Kings County line - Notebook 196, pages 39-42

POST MILES -
Surveyed 5/19/2005 & September 9, 2005 and may be periodically updated

0 - 1 - RS - solid in places
1 - RS - Scattered at Rest Stop, outside of freeway right-of-way.
2 - RS solid, cotton fields
3 - RS very scattered, orchards
4 - RS in ditch, orchard
5 - RS in ditch, orchard
6 - NS, cotton fields
7 - NS, sunflowers along roadside, cotton fields
8 - NS, sunflowers along roadside,orchard
9 - NS, sunflowers along roadside,orchard
10 - NS, sunflowers along roadside,orchard



Updated December 24, 2022 - The Reveg Edge Ecological Restoration service


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