Potomac Highlands Cooperative Weed and Pest Management Area

The Potomac Highlands Cooperative Weed and Pest Management Area (CWPMA) is a partnership between federal, state, and local agencies, community associations, non-profit organizations, and private land owners aimed at coordinating efforts and programs for addressing the threat of invasive species.

The CWPMA serves Grant, Hardy, Pendleton, Pocahontas, Randolph, and Tucker Counties in West Virginia and Augusta, Highland, Rockingham, and Shenandoah Counties in Virginia. This landscape contains a diverse mix of pine/heath barrens, rocky summits, cliffs and balds, and subalpine coniferous forests. Over 120 rare animals, plants and natural communities have been identified in this area, making it one of the richest concentrations of biological diversity in the east.