Robin Allen, a CHS Educator has assigned each of her Junior high students in Exploratory Agriculture a noxious weed to research. Their job is to be able to recognize noxious weeds as well as educate others on how to eradicate and stop the spread of the weed. There are a total of 36 weeds we will learn about through this project and the Blaine County Journal will Spotlight 1 or 2 each week.

Common Buckthorn

By Jacob Metcalf:

The life cycle of a common buckthorn is a perennial which means it lives more than one year.

The leaves have rounded teeth sometimes they are nearly smooth, they have...