Timothy Prather

Research

• Invasive plant ecology
• Invasive plant detection, with emphasis on remote sensing, identifying areas likely invaded for early detection and rapid response survey
• Integrated pest management of weeds in hay, pasture CRP and wildland areas
• Plant community rehabilitation, with special attention to both invasive plant interactions and soil interactions
• Modeling plant movement across landscapes

• Administer the Lambert Erickson Weed Diagnostic Laboratory that identifies, tracks and surveys for invasive plant species
• Provide technical and educational program support to Cooperative Weed Management Areas in Idaho
• Collaborate with county faculty on pasture and wildland projects

• Prather, T. S., Albert Adjesiwor, and D. Morishita. 2022. Idaho's Noxious Weeds, 10th Edition, BUL816. 158 pgs
• Jones, L., Wallace, J., Painter, K., Pavek, P., & Prather, T. S. 2022. Perceptions and Management of Ventenata by Producers in the Inland Pacific Northwest. The Journal of Extension, 60(2), Article 10. https://doi.org/10.34068/joe.60.02.10
• Raiyemo, Damilola A., William J. Price, Traci A Rauch, Joan M. Campbell, Fangming Xiao, Rong Ma, Rachel Gross and Timothy S Prather. 2021. Herbicide safener increases weed-management tools for control of annual grasses in wheat. Weed Technology 1-10. doi:10.1017/wet.2020.113.
• Adjesiwor, A, T Prather, J Felix, and D Morishita. 2021. Pigweeds: Current and Emerging Weed Threats in the Pacific Northwest, PNW758.
• Jones, Lisa C., Cleve Davis and Timothy S. Prather. 2020. Consequences of Ventenata dubia, 30 years post-invasion to bunchgrass communities in the Pacific Northwest. Invasive Plant Science and Management 13(4):226-238.
• Alomran, M., Newcombe, G., & Prather, T. (n.d.). Ventenata dubia’s Native Range and Consideration of Plant Pathogens for Biological Control. Invasive Plant Science and Management, 1-16. doi:10.1017/inp.2019.24
• Barroso, Judit, Drew J. Lyon and Timothy S. Prather. 2019. Russian Thistle: Management in a Wheat-Fallow Crop Rotation, PNW492 (revised).
• Jones, L., N. Norton, T. S. Prather. 2018. Indicators of Ventenata (Ventenata dubia) Invasion in Sagebrush Steppe Rangelands. Invasive Plant Science and Management 11(1):1-9.
• Venn, T.J., M.J. Wibbenmeyer, C.A. Armatas and T.S. Prather. 2017. Social preferences for invasive plant management: A case study from the interior Northwest of the United States. 15: (2) 43-72.
• Kesoju, S. R., B. Shafii, L. W. Lass, W. J. Price and T. S. Prather. 2015. Predicting rush skeletonweed (Chondrilla juncea) dispersal by wind within the canyon grasslands of Central Idaho. Int. J. Plant Biol. Res 3(1):1026.

• Idaho Weed Hall of Fame, 2011
• Bronze Award for Idaho Farm Bureau Private Forest Series, Association of Natural Resource Extension Professionals, 2007
• Outstanding Paper, Weed Technology, 2003