Carl E. Bell,^1,*,** Edith B. Allen,^2,*** Kristin A. Weathers,^2,**** Milton McGiffen<sup>2,*****

1</sup>1University of California Cooperative Extension San Diego, CA
²2University of California Department of Botany and Plant Sciences Riverside, CA

^* Corresponding author: carl@socalinvasives.com; (760) 815-2777
^**Carl Bell is Emeritus Extension Advisor, University of California Cooperative Extension, San Diego, CA. He has BA and MA degrees from California State University Long Beach. His research efforts have focused on management of invasive plant species and competition between native and exotic plants in natural habitats. He is a Past President and Honorary Member of the California Weed Science Society.
^***Edith B. Allen is Professor and Cooperative Extension Specialist in the Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside. She has a BS degree from Tufts University, and MS and PhD degrees in Botany from Rutgers University and the University of Wyoming. Her research interests include restoration ecology, invasive species ecology, and soil and mycorrhizal ecology. She is a Fellow of the AAAS, a Fulbright Specialist Award recipient, and past president of the Soil Ecology Society.
^****Kristin Weathers is currently Associate Faculty in Biology at Mount San Jacinto Community College in San Jacinto, California. She has a BS from Trinity University, an MS from Colorado State University, and a PhD from University of California, Riverside. Previously she worked as a contractor managing restoration and weed management projects on a Superfund site and as natural resource support for the US Marine Corps. Her research interests include restoration and wildland weed management with particular interest in methods that can be feasibly implemented on larger scales.
^*****Milt McGiffen graduated from the Pennsylvania and North Carolina State Universities, then worked at the Illinois Natural History Survey as a Research Biologist for seven years. After earning his PhD from the University of Illinois, he worked for a year as a Research Agronomist at the USDA's North Central Soil Conservation Laboratory. Since 1992, Milt has been an Extension Specialist at the University of California and is currently the Vice Chair for Extension in the Department of Botany and Plant Sciences.