Crossposted from the Noxious Weeds Blog

“What do you say when the [Noxious Weed] work feels futile?”

This was a question that came to us earlier this season from Andrew Munson, a Noxious Weed coordinator over in San Juan County.

It wasn’t a rhetorical question — he was genuinely wondering how other weed professionals handle the hard stuff: the Sisyphean [no end in sight] reputation of Noxious Weed control, the thankless days, the public skepticism, the physical toll, the moments that make you ask what’s the point?

We felt it. Because we’ve all been there.

So we turned the question around and asked our own staff:

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