“The ecology and management of invasive weeds: but this won’t be boring, it will be fun”
This presentation will cover the impacts of invasive weeds and the complexities of their management.

Sounds exciting, doesn’t it!? Don’t worry, it won’t be a snoozer! It will be a storytelling session revealing a series of discoveries, failures, successes, and unexpected outcomes sure to captivate and inform even those most uninterested in the lowly weed.

Dr. Dean Pearson is a Research Scientist with the Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA FS where he has led a community ecology and invasive species research team since 2005. Dean has a BS in wildlife biology, a MS in zoology, and a PhD in organismal biology and ecology from the University of Montana where he is adjunct faculty with the Ecology and Evolution faculty.