Becker Soil & Water Conservation District
809 8th Street SE
Detroit Lakes, MN 56501
218-846-7360
Implementation And Guidelines To Develop A List Of
Gravel Pits Approved For Noxious & Invasive Weed
Control.
The goal of the Gravel Pit Certification Program is to
buy gravel with reduced seed bank, to reduce
maintenance costs and spread of both invasive and
noxious weeds throughout the county.
2014 Certified
Gravel Pits
ap p ro v ed p i t s o nl y, i nc l ud i n g ne w p i ts t ha t b e co me
Aggregate Industries
Alajoki Gravel
Pit: 52, 52E, 44, 43, 14, 88 & 97
Anderson Gravel Pit, Richwood
p arti cip a nt s i n t h is p r o g r a m.
Boit Gravel Pit
1 . B ec ker Co u n t y wi l l p ur c ha se ma ter i al fro m
2 . P artic ip a tio n i s vo l u n t ar y fo r ne w a nd e x i st i n g p it s.
3 . P artic ip a tio n r eq uir es a co m mi t me n t to we ed co nt ro l fo r
se ve n year s fo llo wi n g s i g n up .
4 . T hi s t i me p er io d i s b a se d o n a n e st i ma te o f t he t i me
Becker County Gravel Pits
: 59 Pit
: Ford Pit
: Toad lake Pit
req u ired to s ub st a nti al l y d i mi n i s h t h e vi ab i lit y o f t he
: Bad Medicine Pit
seed b a n k i n we ed i n fe st ed p r o p er t y.
: Karkinen Pit
5 . In sp e ctio n s wi ll b e d o ne at lea s t t wi ce e ac h gro wi n g
sea so n fo r a ll p ar t icip at i n g p it s to q ua li fy fo r o r re mai n
o n t he ap p ro ved p it li st .
6 . Lo cal re sid e nt s wi l l b e e nco ur a ged to gi v e p re fer en ce to
cert i fi ed gra v el Prohibited
p it s.
Noxious Weeds
Eradicate List:
1. Yellow Starthistle
7. Grecian Foxglove
2. Oriental Bittersweet
8. Giant Hogweed
3. Japanese Hops
9. Brown Knapweed
4. Dalmation Toadflax
10. Meadow Knapweed
5. Common Teasel
11. Black Swallow-wort
6. Cut-Leaved Teasel
Control List
1. Leafy Spurge
5. Wild Parsnip
2. Canada Thistle
6. Common Tansy
3. Plumeless Thistle
7. Spotted Knapweed
4. Purple Loosestrife
8. Narrowleaf Bittercress
Restricted Noxious Weeds
1. Common or European Buckthorn 4. Common Reed
2. Glossy Buckthorn
5. Garlic Mustard
3. Multiflora Rose
Specially Regulated Plants
1. Poison Ivy
3. Giant Knotweed
2. Japanese Knotweed
County Noxious Weeds
1. Absinthe Wormwood
3. Houndstongue
2. Hoary Alyssum
4. Yellow & Orange Hawkweed
: Scholz Pit
Central Specialties Inc.
: Lake View Pit
: Cormorant Pit
: L. Anderson Pit
: Toad Lake Pit
Dave Nelson Gravel Pit
Hickel Pit
Hough Inc.
: Lake Eunice
Harlow Krogen Pit
Lake View Township Pit
Mark Sand & Gravel Pits
: Antilla
: Hallikanen
: Wettel
: Candor
: Two Inlets
B. Maurer Pit
Olson, Orvis
Rock Ridge Resources, Lake View
Rollag Hills Aggregate
Joe Stenger Pit
Tim Stenger Pit
Strata Pit
: Detroit Twp Pit
: Lake View/Detroit Twp Pit
: Parke Twp Pit
: Cormorant Twp Pit
Thelen Pits