The Custer County Weed & Pest Board and Custer County Weed & Pest Department are committed to the implementation of an effective integrated Weed & Pest Management Program.
Our goal is to control and monitor local and state noxious weeds and declared pests within Custer County. Custer County Weed and Pest Department is overseen by the County Weed Board which meets at least four times per year. The Director informs the Weed Board on activities of the Weed Department.
* Notice of landowner responsibility to control noxious weeds and declared pests
Contact: Mike Baldwin – [email protected]
Mail: 25363 US Highway 385, Custer, SD 57730 Phone: (605) 673-5680 Hours: Monday – Thursday 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Tools for noxious weed identification:
- SDSU Extension pocket guide to the Noxious Weeds of South Dakota:
- South Dakota noxious weed poster:
State Declared Noxious Weeds
- Leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula) SD Distribution map
- Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense) SD Distribution map
- Perennial sow thistle (Sonchus arvensis) SD Distribution map
- Hoary cress (Cardaria draba) SD Distribution map
- Absinth wormwood (Artemisia absinthium) SD Distribution map
- Purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) SD Distribution map
- Salt cedar (Tamarix aphylla, T. chinensis, T. gallica, T. parviflora and T. ramosissima) SD Distribution map
State Declared Pests
- Gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar) (aka spongy moths)
Custer County Declared Noxious Weeds
- Black henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) SD Distribution map
- Common mullein (Verbascum thapsus) SD Distribution map
- Musk thistle (Carduus nutans) SD Distribution map
- Plumeless thistle (Carduus acanthoides) SD Distribution map
- Spotted knapweed (Centaurea maculosa) SD Distribution map
- St. John’s wort (Hypericum perforatum) SD Distribution map
- White horehound (Marrubium vulgare) SD Distribution map
- Yellow toadflax (Linaria vulgaris) SD Distribution Map
Other locally noxious weeds in South Dakota
- Bull thistle (Cirsium vulgare) SD Distribution map
- Chicory (Cichorium intybus) SD Distribution map
- Common burdock (Arctium minus) SD Distribution map
- Common tansy (Tanacetum vulgare) SD Distribution map
- Dalmatian toadflax (Linaria dalmatica) SD Distribution Map
- Diffuse knapweed (Centaurea diffusa) SD Distribution Map
- Field bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis) SD Distribution map
- Flowering rush (Butomus umbellatus L.)
- Giant knotweed (Polygonum sachalinense) SD Distribution Map
- Houndstongue (Cynoglossum officinale) SD Distribution Map
- Oxeye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare) SD Distribution Map
- Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri)
- Phragmites (Phragmites australis) SD Distribution Map
- Poison hemlock (Conium maculatum) SD Distribution map
- Puncturevine (Tribulus terrestris) SD Distribution map
- Scotch thistle (Onopordum acanthium) SD Distribution map
- Sulfur cinquefoil (Potentilla) SD Distribution map
- Wild Parsnip (Pastinaca sativa)
Other Pests in South Dakota
- Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica)
- Mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonum ponderosae)
Other Invasive Plants to Watch For (Contact the office if any are detected)
- Brown Knapweed (Centaurea jacea)
- Common Teasel (Dipsacus fullonum)
- Meadow Sage (Salvia pratensis)
- Meadow Hawkweed (Hieracium caespitosum)
- Medusa Head (Taeniatherum caput-medusae)
- Myrtle Spurge (Euphorbia myrsinites)
- Orange Hawkweed (Hieracium aurantiacum)
- Russian Knapweed (Centaurea repens)
- Sickleweed (Falcaria vulgaris)
- Spurge Flax (Thymelaea passerina)
- Tall Buttercup (Ranunculus acris)
- Tall Hawkweed (Hieracium piloselloides)
- Ventenata (Ventenata dubia)
- Yellow Bluestem (Bothriochloa ischaemum)
- Yellow Flag Iris (Iris pseudacorus)
- Yellow Starthistle (Centaurea solstitialis)
Prairie Dog Complaints
- Prairie dogs encroaching onto private land from public land:
- a request for the SD Game & Fish Department to treat the problem can be filed here on the Prairie Dog Control form. Please check eligibility requirements.
- Prairie dogs encroaching onto private land from private – complete and follow directions on linked form.
- NOTE: Before the County Weed & Pest Board can take action, prairie dogs must be “… colonizing on lands where the prairie dogs are unwanted by the owner of the impacted land” (SDCL 38-22-1.2).
- Send written complaint to SD Dept. of Agriculture and Natural Resources (address on linked form above). The State will provide a copy of the complaint to the County Weed & Pest Board.
- A copy of the complaint must also be sent by you to the landowner you are filing a complaint against.
Obtain or Renew an Applicators License:
- SD Private Applicator License:
- Obtain or renew a license click here. Note: online testing no longer available.
- SD Commercial Applicator License.
- Recertify or update your license click here.
- New license – contact the Rapid City SDSU Extension office (605-394-1722) to schedule an appointment.
Newsletter:
SDSU Extension Weed Control publications:
Board meeting agendas and minutes
Helpful Links
SD Weed and Pest Control * SD Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) * SD Farm Service Agency (FSA) * SD Conservation Districts * SD Game, Fish and Parks * Black Hills National Forest * Buffalo Gap National Grassland * Wind Cave National Park * Jewel Cave National Monument * SD Department of Agriculture & Natural Resources * SD Department of Transportation * SDSU Plant Science Department * SD West Nile * Invasive Plant Atlas * National Invasive Species Information Center * EDDMapS – Early Detection and Distribution Mapping System
